Ask HN: Why are there so few fanless laptops with Intel/AMD?

Re:Ask HN: Why are there so few fanless laptops with Intel/AMD? by pstadler on Sunday April 24, 2022 @06:59AM (#31142886)

Used an MBA M1 for a year before switching to a MBP 14" M1 Pro. The MBA is the best laptop I‘ve ever had. Fanless, light, insane battery life, always cool and blazingly fast. No noticeable difference between the M1 (8/7 16GB) vs. M1 Pro (10/14 32GB) in daily use, although I don’t usually depend on long running processes going full throttle.

I believe the entry-level MBA is the best laptop you can buy when it comes to price-performance ratio.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are there so few fanless laptops with Intel/AMD? by danieldk on Sunday April 24, 2022 @08:10AM (#31143302)

Fanless, light, insane battery life, always cool and blazingly fast. No noticeable difference between the M1 (8/7 16GB) vs. M1 Pro (10/14 32GB) in daily use

Indeed. I only got the M1 Pro because I often do larger builds and two AMX (matrix multiplication) units is nice for some machine learning tasks. Other than that, I liked the Air more.

I hope that they carry over some features of the Pro to the next generation Air, in particular MagSafe, supporting more than one external 4k/5k display, and perhaps >16GB, and it would be so perfect.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are there so few fanless laptops with Intel/AMD? by fmajid on Sunday April 24, 2022 @09:12AM (#31143615)

If anything the M1 MBA is too cool, it freezes my lap off. Intel’s done a heroic job of maximizing performance on x86 but you’ve got to pay the price for the inefficiency of its legacy CISC architecture and power efficiency and thermals is it.

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