Apple forgoes cooling systems in M2 MacBook Air
The engineers at iFixit have turned their tools on Apple's flash new M2-powered MacBook Air to find a startling lack of cooling., the teardown team took a moment to wonder at the amount of ports crammed into a machine that is even slimmer than its predecessor, noting the return of MagSafe, two Thunderbolt 3 ports, and – strangely enough for an Apple product – a headphone jack.
The engineer's attention then turned to the logic board, which was removed by dealing with ever more brackets and screws. Clip-on shield dispatched, the team were aghast to find an incredibly minimal cooling system. Breezing over the empty space left for an"SSD chip we didn't pay for," iFixit started scraping around for a heat spreader but found only thermal paste and graphite tape."What's with this big gap? How does this thing cool down?" they asked.
So while Intel has the M2 beat, such a performance metric at about 15W power consumption is not to be sniffed at. We're going to go out on a limb here and say that Apple probably knows what it's doing when paring back cooling systems.Soldered-down octa-core M2 and unified memory package, with integrated GPUA seemingly Apple-made Thunderbolt 3 driver, instead of Intel chipsAnswers on a postcard for the accelerometer.
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