Re:I Miss BSD/Linux
by strathos on Tuesday May 28, 2024 @05:34AM
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Main two things for me that (in my opinion) Apple does better than others are 1) excellent trackpad and 2) no air vents at the bottom of the laptop. With those two things I find MacBooks to be very usable on your lap, like for example in trains, airports, or even in an outdoor chair.
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MacBook Air (ARM) is fanless even.
I had an ASUS laptop die to overheating, so fanless sounds terrible. Does that thing just shut down when it starts getting hot or something?
It just doesn't get hot. If I remember correctly, there's a massive heatsink there that distributes it all, and having an aluminum body probably helps as well. Either way it's the most comfortable laptop I've ever used for this exact reason (well, and the humongous haptic trackpad).
Yet it's still fast enough to do development on it, never mind more mundane stuff like web browsing or watching movies. I'm not at all an Apple fan, but when people say that M* silicon is almost magic, they're not wrong.
I don't think my M2 Air has ever reached a temperature you could describe as "hot."
It's basically an iPad (hardware wise) with a bigger screen and a keyboard attached. Why would that be an issue?
It gets less hot than my iPhone