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A fanless-first design would mean I am not subject to the continual whine of whatever teeny high RPM fans that come standard. As someone stuck on corporate Windows machines, I have 24/7 fan noise from the combination of work-spyware + Teams + Onedrive continually indexing and stomping over each other.

Edit: I rarely do much CPU limited workloads. More RAM heavy than anything else.

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The MacBook Pro often completely turns off its fan, no? I almost never hear it/feel it so it seems like it’s off to me.

I have an M1 Ultra Mac Studio and I routinely push its 20 cores, yet I've never heard a fan, if it even has one.

The Mac Studio actually has a low RPM always-on fan. It's quiet enough that it can get away with that, and not turning it on and off avoids the noticeable transitions in volume. Under very heavy load the fan speeds up slightly.

Yeah, 16in MacBook Pro M1 here and I never hear the fan.

Mine turns on when it's on the charger and I'm compiling something that takes very long or otherwise running a lot of programs.

Even then, it's still quiet enough for the person next to me to barely notice.

Yes my M1 Max MBP is typically at 0rpm

Pretty much the only time I hear the M1 fans are when I'm doing something with tensorflow-metal, ffmpeg'ing or rendering video, or otherwise deliberately thrashing the CPU. e.g. Minecraft (albeit modded with Sodium et al) makes it noticeably warm but no fans.

I’ve had an M1 mini for a year now. I think it has a fan, but I’ve literally never heard it, even though it sits right in front of me. Even when using all cores to do video encoding.

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