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- The Air sticks to passive cooling, letting the natural flow of air and some heat sinks do the job of keeping the CPU from getting too hot. The MacBook Pro 13-inch, on the other hand, uses a pair of fans, actively drawing in cool air and forcing out the hot.
www.pcmag.com/news/fanless-vs-active-cooled-m2-how-does-apples-cpu-fare-in-the-new-macbooksFanless vs. Active-Cooled M2: How Does Apple's CPU ... - PCMag
Jul 16, 2022 · The biggest difference between the two new MacBook models—more important than any cosmetic differences by far—is how they cool that M2 chip inside. The Air sticks to passive cooling, letting ...
- Brian Westover
- Lead Analyst, Hardware
Mar 9, 2024 · Since the M1-powered MacBook Air, the lightweight Apple laptop has used no active cooling and relies on passive cooling through the heatsink and chassis to achieve silent operation.
Jul 22, 2022 · The MacBook Airs include passive heatspreaders (that is, one without a fan) that conduct heat away from the chip, while the M1 and M2 MacBook Pros use active cooling systems that pull in...
"The Apple M1 and M2 chips don’t require active cooling, and the MacBook Air models don’t have fans, but the MacBook Pro models do. The GeekBench benchmark is relatively short, so that doesn’t come into play for these results.
Its passive cooling is fine for light browsing and emails, but forget heavy gaming or serious work for more than 10+ min at a time without expecting major throttling (up to 27% per at least one user's testing) due to the amount of heat it produces. In these use cases, active cooling is a MUST.
Jul 16, 2022 · The biggest difference between the two new MacBook models—more important than any cosmetic differences by far—is how they cool that M2 chip inside. The Air sticks to passive cooling, letting ...
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Nov 10, 2020 · Apple is trying to have it both ways, of course: during its presentation, it first lauded the MacBook Air for going fanless, then talked up the “active cooling solution” (aka the fan you’ve...