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Date : Wed Nov 29 2023 15:45:05

This nifty MacBook Air cooling design could take performance to the next level

Date:
Wed, 29 Nov 2023 15:38:29 +0000

Description:
The Frore AirJet Mini is a fanless cooling solution that promises to 
significantly boost MacBook Air performance.

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The MacBook Air is one of the best thin-and-light laptops money can buy, and 
a revolutionary new cooling solution could make future MacBook Air models 
even faster, while keeping their whisper-quiet fanless design. 

The Frore AirJet is a cooling chip for laptops and PCs that uses ultra-thin 
membranes vibrating at ultrasonic frequencies to generate airflow without the 
need for fans. I discussed the AirJets potential earlier this year , noting 
that it could spell doom for the ever-irritating drone of laptop fans. But 
what if that technology was put inside a laptop that relies solely on passive 
cooling? 

Frore Systems has now demonstrated its most impressive use case yet: an 
internally modified MacBook Air 15-inch that uses three AirJet Mini chips to 
cool the M2 chip at its core. The results speak for themselves. 

As reported by The Verge , the MacBook Air equipped with the AirJet chips 
outperformed the factory-standard model in virtually every area. The initial 
performance differences were minor, but the longer the laptop ran, the wider 
the gulf became. When testing Shadow of the Tomb Raider , The Verges Sean 
Hollister noticed that a 1fps difference became a 5fps difference after just 
half an hour of game time. Lets face it: the MacBook Air needs more than 
passive cooling 

Im going to be totally honest here and say that I really hate passive CPU 
cooling. Years ago, I built a fully passively-cooled gaming PC for a feature 
for Maximum PC magazine, and while it ran completely silently, it sort of 
sucked (or more accurately, it didnt suck enough, due to the lack of fans). 

The passive cooling used in the MacBook Air ultimately holds it back compared 
to the actively-cooled MacBook Pro  and owners of older models, like the 
still-pretty-great 2020 M1 MacBook Air , can likely attest that the laptop 
gets pretty toasty after extended use. We live in an era where one of the 
biggest obstacles to processor performance is thermal limits; if your 
computers CPU gets too warm, itll usually self-throttle its own capabilities 
to keep from overheating. (Image credit: Frore Systems) 

The M2 chip (and Apples new M3 chip , which isnt yet available in the MacBook 
Air) is an impressively powerful processor, so its a shame to see it 
hamstrung by thermal safety barriers. If Apple were to implement Frores 
cooling solution in the hotly-anticipated M3 MacBook Air it could be the best 
Air yet  and would keep Apples fanless design ethos intact. And come on, 
Apple  your product literally has the word Air in the name. Its a match made 
in heaven. 

Frore isnt just taking aim at Apple, either. The startup company has enjoyed 
a whopping $116 million in investor funding, and has been pushing to 
implement its innovative cooling tech in all sorts of products, most recently 
a silent mini workstation PC from Zotac . Its no surprise, really: the AirJet 
genuinely does have the potential to completely change the game when it comes 
to PC and laptop cooling, and I personally hope it can replace both fans and 
passive cooling in the years to come.



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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/computing/macbooks/this-nifty-macbook-air-cooling-de
sign-could-take-performance-to-the-next-level


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