From: daniel@me.invalid   
      
   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.   
      
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   Cheers,   
     Daniel.   
      
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