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Re: one up laptop

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Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> 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.

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