Apple M2 MacBook Air teardown reveals an odd element

What’s the very first thing you do if you get a model new MacBook Air with Apple’s new M2 chip? In the event you’re iFixit, you tear it down to the smallest bits and report what you discovered.

This time round, the restore specialists discovered one thing pretty odd: The brand new MacBook Air does not appear to have a lot in the way in which of cooling. The absence of fan is not any shock — that was one of many foremost differentiators between the earlier MacBook Air and MacBook Professional — however the brand new machine does not actually have a passive cooler, similar to a warmth spreader. As a substitute, it depends simply on thermal paste and graphite tape for cooling.

This might imply that Apple’s new M2 chip actually is so thermally environment friendly that the brand new Air merely does not want a cooler of any type. Nevertheless it might additionally imply that consumers who are likely to put their laptops as much as very CPU-intensive duties, or dwell in heat climates, may need to attend for some checks to see how sizzling the M2 Air will get in numerous eventualities.

Different fascinating particulars from the teardown is the place of the audio system, which at the moment are situated above the keyboard (they had been on the left and proper facet on the earlier mannequin), in addition to a notable discount in screws wanted to open the laptop computer (4 as a substitute of ten).

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