Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!feeder1.feed.ams11.usenet.farm!feed.usenet.farm!peer02.ams4!peer.am4.highwinds-media.com!peer03.iad!feed-me.highwinds-media.com!news.highwinds-media.com!fx17.iad.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel Newsgroups: comp.sys.raspberry-pi Subject: Re: one up laptop References: <87ldl6lc28.fsf@rpi3> <10d4rn3$32j3b$1@dont-email.me> <87zf9lirt3.fsf@rpi3> <87v7k9iokj.fsf@rpi3> <10d5mcl$3akui$1@dont-email.me> Message-ID: <87ms5liaf9.fsf@rpi3> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.2 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:f7jd0Bi0FSzzSm0MrGzQOLqqQ5Y= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 46 X-Complaints-To: abuse(at)newshosting.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:29:47 UTC Organization: Newshosting.com - Highest quality at a great price! www.newshosting.com Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2025 13:29:46 -0700 X-Received-Bytes: 2510 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.raspberry-pi:37204 Chris Townley writes: > On 20/10/2025 16:24, Daniel wrote: >> Daniel writes: >> >>> Daniel James writes: >>> >>>> On 20/10/2025 00:13, Daniel wrote: >>>>> I'm a bit turned off by the cooling fan next to the heat sync. Is that >>>>> fan absolutely necessary for users never intending on overclocking the >>>>> cpu? >>>> >>>> I don't know. >>>> >>>> The production laptop isn't expected to be available until late >>>> November/early December, so nobody really knows how well the cooling >>>> solution will work in practice. >>>> >>>> ... but if I had to guess ... >>>> >>>> It uses a Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5, in a fairly confined space, >>>> so not much natural airflow. The general consensus of opinion is that >>>> a CM5 does need a fan unless its workload is trivial. I expect the >>>> laptop's fan won't come on until the temperature passes some >>>> threshhold (I have an Argon One case for a Pi4, and that has a fan >>>> that works in this way) but I would expect it to be necessary when the >>>> machine is under load. >>> >>> Thanks. I will wait until the device has hit the wild and await >>> reviews. I saw reviews already but it was tech youtubers who got a >>> preproduction model. >>> >>> I'd be interested in the keyboard quality. Can't be worse than the >>> pi400's. >> The argon 40 studio put up a youtube prototyping vid of the >> build. Nice >> rig. >> https://da.gd/4QK0N >> If you dont trust shortened url's, check youtube for >> Behind the Build: Prototyping the Argon ONE UP >> D > > I wouldn't trust anything from Argon40 again What happened, if you don't mind my asking?