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Re: one up laptop

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Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> writes:

> On 10/20/25 16:24, Daniel wrote:
>> Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> writes:
>> 
>>> 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.
>> 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
>
> Thx, It looks as if they don't have a heat sync on the compute
> module. I would have thought it made sense to use the aluminium case
> as a heat sync rather than have a fan.
>
> Any ideas why they would design it like that?

The rectangular plate screwing into the bottom of the laptop serves as a
heat sync. IIRC, it's a different alloy than the aluminum case. I wish
they just made a larger plate and avoid the fan altogether, but that's
just me.

Nothing out there makes me fully happy.

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one up laptop Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2025-10-19 16:13 -0700
  Re: one up laptop Daniel James <daniel@me.invalid> - 2025-10-20 09:26 +0100
    Re: one up laptop Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2025-10-20 07:14 -0700
      Re: one up laptop Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2025-10-20 08:24 -0700
        Re: one up laptop Chris Townley <news@cct-net.co.uk> - 2025-10-20 17:01 +0100
          Re: one up laptop Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2025-10-20 13:29 -0700
            Re: one up laptop Chris Townley <news@cct-net.co.uk> - 2025-10-20 22:52 +0100
              Re: one up laptop druck <news@druck.org.uk> - 2025-10-21 13:57 +0100
                Re: one up laptop Chris Townley <news@cct-net.co.uk> - 2025-10-21 18:05 +0100
        Re: one up laptop Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2025-10-20 17:29 +0100
          Re: one up laptop Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2025-10-20 13:29 -0700
            Re: one up laptop Chris Elvidge <chris@internal.net> - 2025-10-21 12:29 +0100
              Re: one up laptop Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2025-10-21 13:56 +0100
              Re: one up laptop Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2025-10-21 13:37 -0700
        Re: one up laptop Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2025-10-21 00:57 +0000
          Re: one up laptop Daniel <me@sc1f1dan.com> - 2025-10-21 13:38 -0700
  Re: one up laptop Pancho <Pancho.Jones@protonmail.com> - 2025-10-20 10:39 +0100
  Re: one up laptop Theo <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2025-10-21 15:11 +0100

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