I wish more manufacturers worked harder to keep fan noise down to between none and barely audible without severely throttling the CPU and GPU or toasting your lap. My laptop shouldn't be spinning up its fan just because I plugged in something as pedestrian as a 2560x1440 60hz monitor (as my ThinkPad X1 Nano likes to).
Once you experience a computer that is absolutely silent, it’s really hard to go back to a normal laptop. My windows notebook spins it’s fan constantly and it drives me crazy. I have to put the machine to sleep and unplug the charger just to shut the damn thing up when I’m not using it
A fanless-first design would mean I am not subject to the continual whine of whatever teeny high RPM fans that come standard. As someone stuck on corporate Windows machines, I have 24/7 fan noise from the combination of work-spyware + Teams + Onedrive continually indexing and stomping over each other.
Edit: I rarely do much CPU limited workloads. More RAM heavy than anything else.
We have no no fan/low fan support on our firmware backlog - basically reducing the SOC TDP to the point where the laptop becomes a passively cooled and does not require the fan. So you can have performance when you want it, and silence when you want.
As someone that works in an open floor plan I _hate_ when my coworkers laptops sound like jet planes because the fans are going full blast. It’s so distracting.
I put together a silent pc earlier this year and I'll never go back. I had a Dell "new" XPS with 16 cores and 32GB on it, and the fan for the laptop itself runs 80% of the time, and even the docking station for it has a fan that runs pretty often. This thing in contrast never makes a single sound.
I'm (still) hoping that next-gen laptops and tablets won't need any fans (or "almost silent" coolers). My tablet is already completely fanless and quiet, and so is my Dell Mini 9 ...
I'm going to hate using a fanless laptop because I know it's throttling all the time...
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