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@variablepulserate Yeah, looking at the PCB and general layout of the 2020 MacBook Air internals, it makes one wonder. It's kind of going the MacBook (2015 - 2019) route with passively cooled logic board, only to slap on a fan without any real efficient purpose on the side. It's like two different people designed the whole layout, only they weren't allowed to talk to each other during the process.

Most puzzling.

I can see a good amount of space where a heat pipe could be fitted to a small heatsink right at the mouth of the fan, exactly like in my old 2015 MacBook Air. At least this fan actually does a difference.

// @peemee @axodys

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@matigo Which makes me wonder what the message was last weekend. “Death to all who disobey the social distancing!”?

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@matigo Ouch!

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@matigo So now the company will start suffering from shit not getting done instead?

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@joeo10 Yeah, me too. Guess I’ll have to look into switching to OpenBSD.

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@peemee Sounds like a solid machine, and everyone I trust has reviewed it favorably.

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@matigo I attribute that to people being assholes, more often than not.

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@matigo Fair enough, but it would still be nice to see the older systems get some newer distros as well. Oh well, I guess I’ll just have to push it as far as it can go on my own.

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@matigo Oh fudge, there probably won’t be a 32-bit version from the official sources… 🤨

This could be an issue, for me.

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I suppose I could also consider an iPhone SE with 128GiB of storage as a pseudo-upgrade to my 64GiB model. Still planning on keeping this little fella going for as long as it’s possible though.