2018 MBP: Will Apple Ditch the Fans?

[rhyzome]

All kinds of new processors and chips are rumored to be in development in Intel and Apple.

Will Apple be able to finally ditch the fans in the next rMBP?

When will the MBP go fanless?

 

[Miltz]

Highly unlikely in a MacBook Pro, alteast within the next 2-3 years. My 2016 is almost always silent except when encoding 4k video.

 

[teohyc]

If they can cool the MBP as fast as it becomes hot (within a minute) while exporting 4K, why not?

 

[InuNacho]

When will the MBP go fanless?

When they strip it of any power and turn it into a toy.

 

[leman]

Of course they won’t go fanless. Doing that would mean dropping all the performance components. What’s the point if a 15@ laptop that performs like the 12” MacBook?

 

[mcpryon2]

I'd say the 2016/2017 MacBook Pros have gotten rid of a lot of fans.

 

[Falhófnir]

Maybe in the next gen ntb; Microsoft have done it in the surface pro (full 15W U series i5 with no fan) but the touch bar models with 28W and 45W cpus (and dGPU in the 15) will likely require fans for a long time yet.

 

[KhunJay]

Well I can tell you Im not a fan....after that nonsensical keyboard and the miserly ports

 

[Naimfan]

When they strip it of any power and turn it into a toy.

You mean they haven't already?

 

[Fishrrman]

The question:
"When will the MBP go finless?"

The answer:
It won't.
That would be an incredibly stupid move on Apple's part. A "pro-level" laptop without proper cooling...

 

[everythingapplerainbow]

Maybe in the next gen ntb; Microsoft have done it in the surface pro (full 15W U series i5 with no fan) but the touch bar models with 28W and 45W cpus (and dGPU in the 15) will likely require fans for a long time yet.

that i5 is basically m5 (like the 12 inch Macbook), you know, Intel trick

 

[maflynn]

I can't see Apple removing the fans, the current and future crop of Intel processors that will go into the MBP, run too hot. They need to be actively cooled. Look how much slower the Core M CPUs are for the MacBook

 

[Ma2k5]

If you can have very powerful chips without fans, you can have very very very powerful chips with fans - which will always have a market due to the performance. So it won't ever be entirely dropped.

 

[maflynn]

If you can have very powerful chips without fans,

givne what we see with the Core M, I don't see that we can have powerful chips.

Don't forget there's other circuitry in the laptop that generates heat, such as the GPU (if they stick with the dGPU).

 

[jerryk]

Still likely to have CPU generating 28 - 45 W that need to be dissipated. So I don't see the fans going anywhere. And then there is the thermal load of the GPUs to be managed.

 

[Falhófnir]

that i5 is basically m5 (like the 12 inch Macbook), you know, Intel trick

No, they did rebrand the m5 as an i5, but the chip in the surface pro is a full 15W U series chip, similar to what’s in the MacBook Air or non touchbar pro (albeit with HD not iris graphics as the surface pro has).

https://www.anandtech.com/show/11434/microsoft-announces-the-new-surface-pro