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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.
Probably because of the click-bait title "We fixed it!" where nothing is to be fixed. A title like "Apple, we have a proposition" would be better.
The lack of cooling in the air is definitely something that should be fixed, it's done like that on purpose so it doesn't perform as well as the Pro. For the price it's mad.
No it isn’t, it’s done like that because it’s not meant to be used that way and it’s meant to be lighter and slimmer. His solution didn’t work, and while it probably could, why would Apple add this when it adds points of failure to a device that doesn’t need it
That's not really the point of the MacBook Air. The Air lineup has always been about doing quick, bursty tasks effectively (email, web browsing, word documents etc). Apple Silicon chips have gotten to the point where fans are not necessary to achieve this objective, so Apple skips a fan in the Air models to help better differentiate the various MacBook models.
The 14in MacBook Pro with M3 chip is essentially just a high-end MacBook Air, as it carries most of the same limitations minus cooling.
The M1 Air is an incredible value. And it’s got no need for a fan. I’d much rather a completely silent machine.
The title is not "we fixed it"
LTT changes the title multiple times after uploading to see what gets them the most views.
Because this gets them views. We've been down this road before. Nobody at Linus likes these clickbaity titles they have to use for videos, but this is what people click and watch, which is what generates them money.
It gets them views and it also gets them flak from people who are annoyed with it.
Their quest for views doesn’t absolve them from criticism of hyperbolic clickbait titles.
Honestly, as someone that's just swapped over into the Apple ecosystem, some of the reactions here are extremely off-putting. LTT has its clear biases here. In general, they're a big fan of Apple's hardware capabilities, especially surrounding the M-series CPUs. They aren't a big fan of their misleading marketing, pricing, product segmentation, or locked down ecosystem. I feel like that is a very fair stance. Linus used to daily drive Airpods and wear an Apple watch, despite being staunchly an Android user ffs.
Yeah, and he notes why pretty shortly into the video: the PC realm copies apple. The video seemed to be complimenting apple if anything, and the level of engineering seems pretty commendable.
Regarding the tech itself, I was looking into it for my personal pc a while earlier and it seems like each module has a max of 10W as it needs to act as a heatsink along with a fan. Performs better than passive of course, but (as evident by the video) still falls short to a conventional fan in a larger chassis.
Would have been useful to compare noise levels between this and the traditional blower.
Check out the frore air jet on YouTube, it’s almost noiseless
It is not the same metric these things are much higher pressure, this has been mentioned ad nauseum In the comparisons and documentations.
Because of what came out about ltt
No, it's because every tech subreddit has a hate boner for whoever is biased against their brand, especially if clickbait titles and cringe grins are involved. This sub hated Linus even before those allegations.
Fanboyism in the apple world is just nuts. No wonder they are called sheeple.
The thing is belonging to the blindly hate Apple fan club is equally annoying
blindly? Are you not reading the same thread I am. Yeah it's totally blind though.
Probably because LTT has been in multiple controversies lately, one that they themselves initiated. The clickbait-y title here ain’t helping their case either, even though the video itself has some merits, more or less lol.
Here is a proper working example