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 Message 21464 
 Daniel to All 
 Re: one up laptop 
 21 Oct 25 10:00:02 
 
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Chris Townley  writes:

> On 20/10/2025 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
>
> I wouldn't trust anything from Argon40 again


What happened, if you don't mind my asking?

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