Subj : Re: one up laptop To : All From : Daniel Date : Tue Oct 21 2025 10:00:01 Pancho writes: > 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? The rectangular plate screwing into the bottom of the laptop serves as a heat sync. IIRC, it's a different alloy than the aluminum case. I wish they just made a larger plate and avoid the fan altogether, but that's just me. Nothing out there makes me fully happy. --- PyGate Linux v1.5 * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10) .