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Apple won't like that at all. The air is not supposed to be able to do real work that active cooling enables.
Neat little gizmo though, great to see it in real world use. Been wondering when they will demonstrate one capable of cooling a higher wattage chip, the ability to include dust filters in laptops would be very useful as far as maintenance.
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.
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.