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Comment by gjsman-1000 | Hacker News Reader

Wait, they pulled out the FAN?

For sure this was expected, but the fan was actually pulled out in the 12" MacBook 2015 edition (dual-core Intel Core M processor).

  https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/176391/which-macbook-doesnt-have-any-fans/176393

And the latest Intel MBA doesn't have a heat pipe connecting the fan to the CPU.

none of the 12" macbooks had fans, and the early Air's didnt, but the later ones did.

I was hoping they'd bring this form factor back with the ARM chips, it was one of my favorite machines.

Does your iPhone have a fan? It's a supercharged phone chip.

If you think about it, it has the biggest cooling surface in any notebook. It's the aluminium case.

which is pressed against my legs =(

You are holding it wrong, you aren't supposed to use a laptop on your lap :)

Mac Mini still uses a fan (higher clock ???) but not the Macbook Air.

Not exactly revolutionary. I'm typing this on a fanless Intel 7th generation "Kaby Lake" laptop where the CPU's TDP is only 6W.

This is the best part