Subj : Re: one up laptop To : All From : Daniel Date : Wed Oct 22 2025 10:00:01 Chris Elvidge writes: > 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. Sorry, didn't realize. > >> 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) .