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On 10/20/25 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

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?

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