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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Based on their announcement presentation for the MacBook Air M2, you're supposed to use it for gaming and video production. I don't understand the whole "the MacBook Air is only for web browsing and word processing" excuse when Apple's own marketing materials claim otherwise.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

The Air certainly can be used for more than just web browsing and word processing. Although I doubt a fan would ever need to make it into the air. 90% of the original performance at 75% of the power in 30m+ workloads is like more than reasonable compared to a properly cooled mbp with the same chip. You would still have to either lose battery or increase the device thickness to compensate, at that point isnt it just a mbp?

The only thing would be to see if this can become the fan in the pro rather than adding a fan to the air that doesn't need it.