Subj : Re: one up laptop
To   : All
From : Daniel James
Date : Mon Oct 20 2025 09:26:11

On 20/10/2025 00:13, Daniel wrote:
> I'm a bit turned off by the cooling fan next to the heat sync. Is that
> fan absolutely necessary for users never intending on overclocking the
> cpu?

I don't know.

The production laptop isn't expected to be available until late 
November/early December, so nobody really knows how well the cooling 
solution will work in practice.

.... but if I had to guess ...

It uses a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, in a fairly confined space, so 
not much natural airflow. The general consensus of opinion is that a CM5 
does need a fan unless its workload is trivial. I expect the laptop's 
fan won't come on until the temperature passes some threshhold (I have 
an Argon One case for a Pi4, and that has a fan that works in this way) 
but I would expect it to be necessary when the machine is under load.

-- 
Cheers,
  Daniel.

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