It will hilarious how much he had to break the machine to get those coolers in.
The tech is cool though. I don’t think Apple will put active cooling into the Air though. The passive is good enough for what Apple wants with the Air and is one of the few ways they can differentiate between the Air and the base level Pro. As long as the throttling is within reason and only affects more pro workloads, I think the silence is a bigger advantage.
My M2 air never even gets hot. What’s the point?
If you want to cool a MacBook Air more, an actually practical solution is to layer the ‘heatsink’ with (0.5mm) thermal pads to turn the bottom cover into a heat dissipater
All while the chassis becomes even hotter than it already unbearably is. This is something I’ve done to some of my devices. They are untouchable and can no longer be placed on your lap(you know LAPtop) But sure that’s more practical. Jesus Christ
Apple calls these devices portable computers, and doesn’t recommend them to be on your lap. They may have been used on laps a while ago when they comfortably worked on top of people’s legs with the help of the large sturdy bases that they used to have, but most portables are now too thin for that purpose. Aren’t they usually called Notebooks these days, like in NotebookCheck?
Yea well I don’t remember the last time I used my laptop on my lap. Maybe years… I don’t even have this mod anymore like I said. Jesus Christ?
So to you, turning your chasis into an untouchable source of heat is “more practical” than the incorporation a cooling solution that makes it cooler and allows the device to run better due to less heat. Your metric of more practical is a perfect example of the responses In this thread. Illogical for the sake of it.
Incorporating a cooling solution that doesn’t let you use the keyboard or IO is more practical? Illogical for the sake of it. With my solution only the bottom gets hotter. And you still wouldn’t burn yourself if you touched it.
Did you even watch the video? You call that shit practical?
I’m starting to think you’re lying about having done this yourself
I don’t know why people are dunking on LTT on this one. He clearly says that this is not the product he wants Apple to sell, just that he wants Apple to engineer this into their products, IO and speaker and all. Better cooling could benefit all of us after all.
Just let PCMR do PCMR things and move on with life.
Here is a proper working example
Yeah, and he notes why pretty shortly into the video: the PC realm copies apple. The video seemed to be complimenting apple if anything, and the level of engineering seems pretty commendable.
Regarding the tech itself, I was looking into it for my personal pc a while earlier and it seems like each module has a max of 10W as it needs to act as a heatsink along with a fan. Performs better than passive of course, but (as evident by the video) still falls short to a conventional fan in a larger chassis.
It is not the same metric these things are much higher pressure, this has been mentioned ad nauseum In the comparisons and documentations.
Would have been useful to compare noise levels between this and the traditional blower.
Check out the frore air jet on YouTube, it’s almost noiseless
I don’t know why people are dunking on LTT on this one.
Probably because of the click-bait title “We fixed it!” where nothing is to be fixed. A title like “Apple, we have a proposition” would be better.
Because this gets them views. We’ve been down this road before. Nobody at Linus likes these clickbaity titles they have to use for videos, but this is what people click and watch, which is what generates them money.
It gets them views and it also gets them flak from people who are annoyed with it.
Their quest for views doesn’t absolve them from criticism of hyperbolic clickbait titles.
I don’t get the point of the video
Other than…”Hey, you can mod a MacBook Air that uses less power and has fan-less cooling and take some things out of it that are needed and add another fan-less cooling tech that requires more power to get a slight processing power increase and burn your lap while using it. But hey!, it can be done!”
What a waste of time.
And to pose the question that Apple should use this tech? Why would they want the liability, reduced quality and sacrifice the lower power solution they have now?
it’s cool to hack shit together