Used to own an Intel. Recently purchased an M1 Pro, and it’s astounding how quiet it is.

My old Intel MBP would sound like a jet engine just by opening Chrome.

This one… I hammer it all day with multiple servers running, JS projects, tons of tabs, Docker containers, many misc. software utilities… not a single noise.

I’ve only heard the fans once while using Handbrake.

I own both a 2019 and 2022 MBP. The former is the loudest laptop I've ever owned when doing day to day compute tasks. The latter is the most quiet. It's shocking how bad the older Apple laptops are.

Yes, addressing that was a major theme when they redesigned the MBPs in 2021. People complained that they looked chunky compared to the sleeker 2016-2020 models but acknowledged that cool and quiet might be worth a little more utilitarian appearance.

My work gave me this and it’s the worst! I thought mine was faulty. Sent it for repair 2 times and then I realized it’s just garbage thermals and noise. The i9 + dGPU is too much for that form factor.

> My 16” Intel MB pro would not agree. Loud fans kick up the moment you plug in a screen

Plugging in an external screen enables the discrete GPU so your energy usage and temperature will go up.

Apparently it makes a difference which side you plugh the monitor in.