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0 pointsvarispeed15d ago0 comments

In my opinion PC industry is also cooked because of fans. I simply cannot use any recent PC laptop, because the moment you do something it engages fans in the most obnoxious way.

Every time someone turns on their PC laptop next to me, my ears feel assaulted.

My Mac does engage fans from time to time, but I never notice the noise.

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cosmic_cheese15d ago

How little attention cooling gets in the laptop industry outside of expensive gaming laptops is crazy. I have a ThinkPad that gets huffy when I plug it into a 2560x1440 external display while otherwise idle (yes, under Linux too) which shouldn’t even be possible.

sys_6473814d ago

Even the Intel MBP laptops had fans firing up the afterburners to keep the Intel CPU cool when monitors were plugged in. Intel CPUs of the past were just massive heating elements.

LPisGood14d ago

I think a big part of this is the RISC vs ARM architecture, unless RISC has improved more than I know in this area

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