That is just staggering. Once again, Apple is doing more with less.
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New MacBook Pros Include Improved Thermal System That Apple Says You'll Rarely Need Thanks to Apple Silicon
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Well then they are both Apple originated… so either or even both of the two graphic teams are wrong. The other poster noted this website version I posted doesn’t make physical sense either.
The new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros include entirely new designs and a new chassis, and one improvement of the newer chassis compared to its predecessor is improved thermals.
Apple says that the new thermal system in its latest high-end MacBooks is capable of moving 50% more air at lower fan speeds. While the new thermal design is greatly improved, the efficiency of the new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips mean that for most customers, the "fans never turn on" for tasks done daily, according to Apple.
Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering, John Ternus, touted during this week Apple's event that the new chassis was designed with an "intense focus on performance and utility." The new MacBook Pros are "precisely machined around an advanced thermal system," he added. All in all, the new thermal architecture allows the new MacBook Pros to maintain high performance over more extended periods, without overheating or requiring the fans to turn on at higher speeds.
The new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros, both configurable with the M1 Pro or M1 Max chips, are currently available for pre-order and will begin shipping to customers next week. Catch up on everything you need to know about these new MacBook Pros using our roundup.
Article Link: New MacBook Pros Include Improved Thermal System That Apple Says You'll Rarely Need Thanks to Apple Silicon
I just want a new MacBook Air where they make it able to connect to multiple screens again... It has no fans, so then I can be sure it won't turn them on
Realistically, I don't use a lot of power on my laptop anyway - there are times when my current MBP sounds like it's about to take off, but that's due to bugs in MacOS (some system processes taking all the CPU because it got stuck). Work-related tasks that take a lot of CPU at work are done in the cloud or on a local server anyway, depending on the task. So if it throttles those buggy tasks rather than spin up the fans and kill the battery, that's just fine.
Interesting, yeah, that would make sense! Really remarkable what they've done with their chips over the last few years.
It's not, that's just me explaining why I can wait and why I know a lot of people who hate the notch wont. I would have preferred a MBP with the M1 Max but it's not happening this time around for me. Eventually it will. Despite some people saying the notch is going to be on MBP's for around 5 years, I don't see that happening. So I'm sure I'll have the right MBP for me soon enough.
Not silly - that is also one of the reasons I buy Mac. But Mac fans *can* get loud too - and the bottom of my 16" MBP has gotten a lot hotter than is comfortable for a lap. I have a good mind to sue Apple for infertility
I think Apple can afford to do better thermal management than other companies - because their products cost more and because their integrated software/hardware leads to less strain on the system. It helps that macOS users don't have to suffer through those ridiculous 3rd-party malware protections that are pretty much required in Windows (that's the 'invisible' tax that you pay when you get a Wintel box :-(
Sorry, but that's one of the strangest bits of reasoning I've read all year - you object to a notch, but you don't object to a laptop with a "lip" that goes across the entire top of the lid? The area around that notch is all *extra* space that a mac user didn't have before. Webcams have only two places to go - in a cutout or in a lip (well, they could pop out the top of the lid, but that would become a mechanical maintenance nightmare.)
The fans on my 2015 rMBP rarely turn on either, simply because Apple didn't gimp the cooling on them like the later models. Intel doesn't run as hot as people think, it's Apple's bad design in that era that caused the problems, not Intel. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that AS isn't much cooler, it is, I'm just saying that the problems with the Intel laptops turning the fans on at the drop of a hat were actually Apple's fault, not Intel's. I would bet a lot of money that if they put an Intel in the new M1 16" MBP body, with all the same cooling design, it would really surprise you how rarely the fans would turn on, and when they do, for how short a time they stayed on.
It's not strange reasoning at all... I object to the notch because it eats into the screen ruining the aesthetic. It looks dumb and it's completely unnecessary especially in a laptop. It really bothers me that much and evidently judging by the comments I'm seeing here at MacRumors and elsewhere, that opinion is not unique to me alone.
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The new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros include entirely new designs and a new chassis, and one improvement of the newer chassis compared to its predecessor is improved thermals.
Apple says that the new thermal system in its latest high-end MacBooks is capable of moving 50% more air at lower fan speeds. While the new thermal design is greatly improved, the efficiency of the new M1 Pro and M1 Max chips mean that for most customers, the "fans never turn on" for tasks done daily, according to Apple.
Apple's senior vice president of hardware engineering, John Ternus, touted during this week Apple's event that the new chassis was designed with an "intense focus on performance and utility." The new MacBook Pros are "precisely machined around an advanced thermal system," he added. All in all, the new thermal architecture allows the new MacBook Pros to maintain high performance over more extended periods, without overheating or requiring the fans to turn on at higher speeds.
The new 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros, both configurable with the M1 Pro or M1 Max chips, are currently available for pre-order and will begin shipping to customers next week. Catch up on everything you need to know about these new MacBook Pros using our roundup.
Article Link: New MacBook Pros Include Improved Thermal System That Apple Says You'll Rarely Need Thanks to Apple Silicon
Apple MacBooks are known for overheating. Their heating system has always been a very poor design. It's built to overheat.
The fans are arranged in a double helix. It operates in a similar way to Apple's reality distortion field. And remember, Apple invented this.
I agree, especially now with the notch (which I am fine with). Add an option to make the menu bar non-transparent and that notch will disappear in Dark Mode.
It would be great to have the option for the darkest possible menu bar in both dark mode and light modes. It would make the notch even less of a potential issue for those whom it bothers.
it will pale compared to Alder Lake when it comes to time passed frying an egg ... but Intel Marketing will of course fin another spin ...
when my 13 MBP M1 is done being paid off next summer, im gonna trade that in for a 16 inch... even tho i just browse the web and use powerpoint
the extra heat escapes through the notch, so the fans don't have to come on
Because it depicts the top and bottom sides of the fan. Top sucks it in and bottom blows it out.
It’s likely different in the 14” version. When you spec the Max chip in the 16”, it magically becomes heavier but the 14” version doesn’t. It’s probably an upgraded cooling system which may mean either the 16” will run cooler and quieter than the 14” for the same performance or the 14” may throttle. Max Tech on YT has purchased every configuration so it’ll be an interesting comparison.