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1080 points antipaul | 5 comments | 12 Nov 20 00:56 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source

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musicale ◴[12 Nov 20 03:06 UTC] No.25065953[source]▶

Kind of remarkable for a laptop without a fan. (Infamous fan-hater Steve Jobs would be proud.)

Power/thermal management looks very good - low heat and long battery life without sacrificing performance.

Presumably the Air will have to throttle performance for some workloads, but not in this benchmark apparently.

1. Wowfunhappy ◴[12 Nov 20 03:49 UTC] No.25066223[source]▶

Was Steve Jobs an infamous fan-hater? What did he do/say?

2. wmf ◴[12 Nov 20 03:54 UTC] No.25066250[source]▶

Yes, Apple IIs and early Macs had no fans because Jobs wanted them to be silent.

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3. taejavu ◴[12 Nov 20 04:03 UTC] No.25066312[source]▶

4. kzrdude ◴[12 Nov 20 06:55 UTC] No.25067202[source]▶

He was right in many of his extreme tastes, a fanless computer is so much nicer to work with. Many laptops are silent for common tasks now.

5. kristofferR ◴[12 Nov 20 12:00 UTC] No.25068875[source]▶

Yeah, he wasn't a fan.

Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end 16-inch MacBook Pro