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Frore Systems demonstrating three of their AirJet piezoelectric fans inside modified MacBook Air 15" (www.theverge.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Relevant quote:

Frore had to painstakingly mill 0.3mm out of the laptop’s lid to give the AirJets a big enough air gap to do their thing, and the company wound up removing the speakers, Wi-Fi antenna, and even the Mac’s internal keyboard connector along the way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

the company wound up removing the speakers, Wi-Fi antenna, and even the Mac’s internal keyboard connector along the way.

They only did this to make room for the demonstration unit, to show how it would affect noise/cooling. A real application would not need such compromise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This exactly, if Apple was using this tech to cool the air, it would be engineered to fit.

Unfortunately, the Air line I think has been advertised as fanless since the first 11" using super low powered Intel laptop CPU's right? Also they're segmenting their performance tiers by cooling capacity!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The M1 MBA was the first iteration to go fanless, they used ULV Intel CPUs but even those need fans.

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