Subj : Re: one up laptop To : All From : Daniel Date : Tue Oct 21 2025 06:30:02 Daniel writes: > Daniel James writes: > >> 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. > > Thanks. I will wait until the device has hit the wild and await > reviews. I saw reviews already but it was tech youtubers who got a > preproduction model. > > I'd be interested in the keyboard quality. Can't be worse than the > pi400's. The argon 40 studio put up a youtube prototyping vid of the build. Nice rig. https://da.gd/4QK0N If you dont trust shortened url's, check youtube for Behind the Build: Prototyping the Argon ONE UP D --- PyGate Linux v1.5 * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10) .