Subj : Re: one up laptop To : All From : Pancho Date : Mon Oct 20 2025 17:29:38 On 10/20/25 16:24, Daniel wrote: > 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 Thx, It looks as if they don't have a heat sync on the compute module. I would have thought it made sense to use the aluminium case as a heat sync rather than have a fan. Any ideas why they would design it like that? --- PyGate Linux v1.5 * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10) .