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MacBook Air gets solid-state active cooling in intriguing demo (arstechnica.com)

submitted 11 months ago by diacewrb@alien.top to c/gadgets@hardware.watch

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[–] kyralfie@alien.top 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Feels like it's the first article written by a person who actually read and comprehended the specs and not only ate up frore's marketing materials and reported still high on emotions. Finally this cooling's high power consumption aspect is raised in the media.

Still, the battery draw of the active cooling chips is a concern. The Verge's Hollister said that he saw three AirJet Minis "consume over 5 W from the MacBook’s USB-C port, and the AirJet-equipped MacBook Air (obviously) drained far faster than the power-throttled fanless one." The AirJet Minis would only kick on when needed and can draw as little as 0.1-0.2 W when idle, Frore claims. But ultralight laptops don't have a lot of wiggle room with battery life.

[–] CommanderAGL@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

In the current state, but throw some of Apple’s famous R&D money at it and they could probably get power consumption down and only turn it on under high load. I see this going into a macbook pro, rather than the air though