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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

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