MACS FAN CONTROL REVIEW PORTABLE

Since I rejigged my studio to accommodate the new 24” M1 iMac, I’ve relegated the Intel-based 27” iMac to the conservatory. Opening the doors to it literally feels like opening the door to an oven that has reached its 200C baking temperature. You can barely enter ours when the mercury rises.

This explains why I was so perplexed by the noise in my conservatory the other day.įor anyone who doesn’t have a conservatory (ours came with the house), let me explain what they’re like in the summer. Since its departure, I’d forgotten what it sounded like when a computer’s fan comes on.

MACS FAN CONTROL REVIEW PORTABLE

As noted a moment ago, if I was still using the 16” MacBook Pro, it would be sweating as heavily as I was yesterday in the garden and expelling as much hot air as a portable air-conditioning unit. It’s hot in the UK at the moment (for us, that means anything above 25 degrees Celsius the trigger temperature for a perceivable increase in the amount of weather talk). A timely reminder that computer fans exist That is, until last week, when it finally made its presence known under the most unsuspecting of circumstances.

And this is because, try as I might, I’ve not been able to kick the M1 fan into life. It has also powered some of the quietest computers I’ve ever owned. Fast, power-efficient and capable of being the supercar you can drive to the supermarket, it makes for an incredibly exciting future. As soon as the outside temperature crept above 20 degrees Celsius, the same thing would happen.īut the main reason that wonderful laptop spent such a relatively short time in my life was the launch of the M1 chip. It was also the noisiest computer I’ve ever owned.Īny kind of remotely intensive task would spin up the fans immediately. The 16” MacBook Pro used to be my daily driver.

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