Subj : Re: one up laptop To : All From : Chris Elvidge Date : Tue Oct 21 2025 12:29:15 On 20/10/2025 at 21:29, Daniel wrote: > 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 This thread has been annoying me. It's 'heat sink'; sync is short for synchronise. > they just made a larger plate and avoid the fan altogether, but that's > just me. > > Nothing out there makes me fully happy. > -- Chris Elvidge, England --- PyGate Linux v1.5 * Origin: Dragon's Lair, PyGate NNTP<>Fido Gate (3:633/10) .