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      11 months ago

      after using the m1 air, I’m sold on arm
      it doesn’t have fans so no complaints of noise (my old laptop gave me ptsd of fan noise and I’ve also heard framework 12th having fan noise as it has a single fan coupled with a p-series processor)

      I’d love to see amd/intel make an arm chip as microsoft also seems to pick-up the windows on arm thing

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          You can disapate heat into the metal chassis without a fan, and if your CPU only generates a few watts, even at 100% this doesn’t cause it to overheat. This has been done with desktops that are.much more powerful, but it’s also been done on the new M2 MacBook air, because the m2 CPU is quite efficient. It doesn’t overheat because the case passively dissapates heat fast enough. It’s also not a performance laptop.

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          11 months ago

          that’s because apple uses arm chips which are much more power efficient than Intel and amd’s x86 chips

          it mostly uses 15-20 watts or around that which is easy to dissipate than 45-50 watt Intel and amd produces which requires fan

          I’ve heard even the most powerful m1 max chip doesn’t need fan when video editing (which can go for continuous 6 hrs on battery and you don’t see a performance hit when charging or on battery)

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            The MacBook Air with the M2 chip is fanless as well. If it gets to hot, performance is downgraded.

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              yeah, apple screwed up the m2 series

              but I have the m1 air and it is near perfect
              the only thing I want is a taller display like 3:2 and 15 inches maybe

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      11 months ago

      Framework is cool, but Apple Silicon is still a pretty enticing concept if you want a silent system! I have an M1 Mac Mini that doesnt make a peep of noise even when its churning out tests and compiling, but my work laptop costs 2x the price, came out the same year, and struggles in the same tasks.

      Some of it is Windows and its shite scheduler. Some of it is ARM. One day RISC-V will be at the same level and we won’t have to pick :)