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Fixing Apple's GOOD Engineering - M1 MacBook Air thermal pads

Linus Tech Tips · demo · Watch on YouTube

Consumer devices & gadgetsRepair, teardowns & right to repairComputer architecture & CPUs

What it is

Linus Tech Tips opens up an M1 MacBook Air to test whether better thermal pads could improve performance in the fanless design. It looks at what Apple left on the table.

Why Hacker News recommends it

It is linked in laptop thermal threads for a layman's overview of why Apple limits surface temperature and why the mod is not simple.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2021, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “Explains regulated shell temperature limits as the reason MacBooks need fans.”

    maximus-decimus, 2021-11 · Recommendation · in “How can MacBooks be so slim compared to others laptops”

  2. “Layman's overview of safety regulation and cooling in M1 MacBook Air.”

    Dalewyn, 2023-03 · Recommendation · in “Fix Intel CPU Throttling on Linux”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: macbook air, m1, thermal pads, fanless cooling, hardware mod

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