{"id":1207169,"date":"2023-11-29T13:46:35","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T18:46:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1207169"},"modified":"2023-11-29T13:46:35","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T18:46:35","slug":"macbook-air-gets-solid-state-active-cooling-in-intriguing-demo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1207169","title":{"rendered":"MacBook Air gets solid-state active cooling in intriguing demo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rss-wrap\">\n<figure class=\"intro-image intro-left\">\n  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/MacBook-Air-with-AirJet-Upgrade-1.jpe\" alt=\"MacBook Air with AirJet Mini\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\" style=\"font-size:0.8em\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/MacBook-Air-with-AirJet-Upgrade-1.jpeg\" class=\"enlarge-link\" data-height=\"13455\" data-width=\"19206\">Enlarge<\/a> <span class=\"sep\">\/<\/span> The active cooling chips are labeled and located in the upper-left corner near a custom heatsink in the 15-inch MacBook Air.  (credit: <a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"caption-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.froresystems.com\/media-room\/just-when-you-thought-macbook-air-couldnt-get-cooler-airjet-r-makes-it-perform-like-a-macbook-pro\">Frore Systems<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<div><a name=\"page-1\" \/><\/div>\n<p>What if laptops could get fan-level cooling without moving parts? We could get thinner laptops, for one. We could also potentially squeeze more performance out of today&#8217;s already impressively thin designs.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s what San Jose, California startup Frore Systems is trying to convince laptop makers of as it looks for the first OEM to adopt what it describes as the first solid-state active cooling chip.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, the company equipped the M2 15-inch MacBook Air with three of its chips, dubbed AirJet Minis. Media witnesses to a recent demonstration reported that the chips helped bring MacBook Pro-comparable performance to sustained heavy workloads on the MacBook Air.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1986932#p3\">Read 24 remaining paragraphs<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1986932&amp;comments=1\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Ars Technica &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/?p=1986932\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MacBook Air gets solid-state active cooling in intriguing demo<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Enlarge \/ The active cooling chips are labeled and located in the upper-left corner near a custom heatsink in the 15-inch MacBook Air. (credit: Frore Systems) What if laptops could get fan-level cooling without moving parts? We could get thinner &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1207169\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1207170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,110],"tags":[73],"class_list":["post-1207169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ars-technica","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-ars-technica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1207169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1207170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1207169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1207169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1207169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}