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“Oh yeah and the keyboard won’t work”

LTT is terrible, they didn't "fix" anything and Apple should continue to ignore him.

TLDW: This video shows this device called the "Frore AirJet", which is an active cooler that uses piezoelectrics rather than fans to push air through at 1700 pascals.

The Verge article on them: https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/27/23975368/frore-airjet-apple-macbook-air-fanless-mems

The LTT team had to do a lot of modifications (remove the speakers to use the speaker vents for airflow, and remove the MagSafe port, one USB-C port, the keyboard's input cables, and the Wi-Fi antenna), but they were able to get the following results:

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.

Why Linus hates Apple so much, of course he would not like to disappoint his PC friends on his channel but at least be logical.

Someone has a vested interest in Apple buying or licensing this tech.

Although I think this is a cool new technology and Apple could implement this.

I would argue 99% of the userbase for the macbook air wouldn't actually care. This laptop has always been the laptop for word processing, basic web browsing and just normal day to day computer usage. This laptop was never meant to handle long renders or any tasks that require 20+min of constant 100% load dumping heat into the system.

For the 99% of userbase for the macbook air, the passive cooling is plenty sufficient. Apple sacrificed cooling that wouldn't really affect the majority of air user anyways for lighter weight, thinner device, cleaner built and absolute silence. For the user that the air is targeted for, these sacrifices are well justified.

I believe this technology would be very nice to be implemented in a new 13in macbook pro of some kind. Small laptop able to handle long load with some "pro" features (promotion, etc). But it's unnecessary for the air as the majority of its userbase would never see those benefits.

I personally own a 13in M1 air, for what I do with it, it never needs more cooling than it has now and I would happily trade the potentially more cooling for the benefits listed above. I also have a full PC for when I need more power.

I saw this on PC World YT first, I don’t watch LTT, I don’t trust that dude and his channel. Here is the PC World YT link talking about actual tech and demo: https://youtu.be/u0k46Wnq3Rk?si=BoLk9mxEnOJTVEvj

Finding it so difficult to watch LTT contents.

Why didnt they just replace the backplate with a specialized one instead of removing components? :(

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

Hopefully no one was harassed in the making of this video.

Looks like AirJet is sending out these things with sample modified MBAs so YouTubers can destroy functional computers and turn them in to e-waste to sell Air Jet's products. As somebody else pointed out, PC World did a similar video on the same topic at almost the same time.

Apple, don't listen to this moron

Didn't expect to see this clown today.

I just bought an M2 air rather than a pro for my coding. It functions great. In my desk it’s fine. On my lap it’s uncomfortably hot after a long compile.

(That said if I asked somebody in Apple marketing they would probably suggest that the pro is there for people like me. )

Apple need to differentiate the pro from the air. Start at 16Gb maybe.

Airjet seems amazing from the information I've read on it, hopefully it lives up to the hype and we see it replace fans. Quieter and better performance, Apple would love it.

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?

Each with their own but this guy lost all integrity to me. And judging by how poorly his stuff is met lately at least here on Reddit tech channels I’m probably not the only one. Will of course be sure to avoid his posts here altogether from now on.