Its not good Engineering. Or at least thats what rossman said

My parents made me use my laptop on a mat because using it for a long time each day on their dining room table was melting the varnish.

When the worlds most profitable company gets schooled by a youtuber

My laptop sounding like an F-15 E with full afterburner while staying at 80~89 on turbo mode:

Apple could put an end to war and poverty, and align the planets to bring them into universal harmony, allowing meaningful contact with all forms of life, and Linus would find a way to take a dig at them. Cooling via passive, laminar air flow seems, to me, to be aptly named 'Air.' It's not a MacBook Fan.

Hey Linus one question would you recommend doing this ?

Don't worry, I'm okay with sterilizing myself via a Macbook.

What if you put the mod on Mac book pro

Hay just use a laptop cooler .

next episode: we get a metal protective case and sticking a thermal pad there

What if you put the laptop on a stand and put a cpu cooler under the hot part

Linus I think you're being pretty silly. If you're adding active cooling and airflow to the MacBook Air, all the air (the main feature of the device, ITS NAMESAKE) is going to escape and you'll have a pile of useless silicone on your hands.

In conclusion Apple products are ass

I hate Mac

We know apple is not good value. But people will buy it anyway.

Apple: WAAAAH!~ THIS IS ILLEGAL WAAAAAAH!~ STAAAHP IT LINUS STOOOOHP MY COPY RIGHT IS BEING INFRIDGED BOOHOO!~

Just don’t put it on your lap. Using a laptop on your lap is uncomfortable in the first place, never mind the heat. I never use my laptop on my lap.

lol,I thought they would already had implemented this method of dissipating heat... and... if we do this modification I guess we loose warranty right?

Thermal pad 🤔🤔🤔🤔

Can you put thermal pads on the MacBook Pro and do a comparison between both again?

Put it on a cooling pad

Part of the reason why I like a metal desk: one gigantic heat sink.

Can Dennis show us how man scaping works :3 We want to see all the bits :o pornhub is an option~

I feel like this would be a good pair with those laptop cooling pads with fans

interesting fix, the fanless technology never made sense to me, i mean how much can a fan be noisy and disturbing? To me it seems just a forced diversification of the market

@Linus Can you improve the M1 macmini perfs using a similar approach? Who cares if the chassis of the mini heats up... However, I was told it's fan won't turn on most of the time so I wonder how much more juice can be squeezed out of this chip.

MacBook Air - Has no fan even with being over 1000 dollars My Lenovo Mid Range laptop - being 500-700 dollars still has a fan lmao

Linus: saves people money Apple: come here you little piece of sh!t

@Smiley45 wouldn't this heat up other components tho?

@Stroopwafel Falafel you won’t burn it. It should down-clock speed before then, This is so the m1 chip can run faster longer…

Is your money worth burning your lap?

What thickness thermal pads? 0.5/1/1.5/2/2.5/3/4/5 mm?

I am getting only 6300 Cinebench score on stock MacBook Air 16GB RAM! What can be wrong? Is it malfunction?

Just a lap fan under the air would probably solve the problem of heat. Also just watch a video of how they keep burning out from design flaws with cooling. So your mod would probably save the air from the shit cooling design that destroys it.

I don't women would burn their "junk" using this macbook air M1 mod.🤣 Correct me if I'm wrong

"Your Balls Will Thank You" - This is already worth it buying.

And Install a copper pipe on backside of MacBook Air and keep coffee warm.

Glad I watched this before I bought a the new pro

Laptop dripping down in liquid form as it heats up😂

That performance gap shown in the graph is negligible. But any stupid reason to make a click bait video right?

Linus got hair transplant? :) use flaxseeds in your diet :)

I need that hat

I know how to make a fanless computer with super performance.

I give everyone an advice. Take half the money you would spend on an Macbook and buy a laptop that works properly...

Even with the throttling, it seems as if the base macbook air does exceptionally well in production workloads, and is looking to be an overall extremely solid value. If you're looking for a gaming laptop, yeah, go with a Windows based laptop. If you want something for production work, this is honestly a very compelling option. This is coming from someone who has always used windows based machines. The M1 air is gradually becoming quite high on my list of potential options, as I'm looking more into a laptop for photo/ video editing.

Use this mod on your Air + a fan laptop stand thingy and you've got an actively cooled Mac Air with triple or more the thermal mass. Linus should do a video benchmarking that.

Damnit Linus, Its my day off. I dont want to hear about heat chambers and IEC standards (I work for a company that tests electronics, cars, using these standards)

performance always comes before comfort B)

Love the intro 😀

MacBook Air Cools by "Air" thats why it called macbook "air"

Hot Thighs

I'll take it!.. I rarely use my laptop on my lap, there's always somewhere I can place it.

Definitions of Apple: 1) Exaggeratedly expensive 2) Defective by design

This is why I installed Macs Fan control on my M1 Macbook Pro.

can you do the same mod on MacBook pro? since the heat is the worst enemy, will this thermal mod decrease temp even more or keep it under 70 c longer for the fan to turn on? can you do the test?

What would putting a laptop cooler do to help this cooler modified Mac do for performance? I mean considering the price it seems a great option for a great set of fans would easily cool tie laptop l..

Linus going bald?

Maybe with a cooling pad it would fix that problem

Wouldn't this lead to chasis bowing in the future as you keep doing heat cycles on the exterior case.

Could you passively cool a processor in any effective way by simply attaching it to a ridiculously massive block of metal? Not like a passive heatsink with fans or whatever, but like a 500mm cube of steel? How much better is a fan?

I think I found the solution: covers! My Lenovo Yoga runs hot occasionally, besides being a bit too spiky to hold (eeh modern design); so I forked out 40 bucks for a fake leather cover, which works beautifully for both problems. Users already go crazy for covers for Apple products, it would be a slam dunk. Then when you need performance, you put it on a $499 iCooler dock. Perfection!

Such a great video

Clickbait as always

If u do this apple wont service the laptop in future, apple condutions clearly mentions no physical change to machine

got a MacBook sir m, I use logic heavily everyday with waves, fab filter, Izotoope and more plug ins and it never gets hot🤷🏾‍♂️

Ironic to be called the air when there is no airflow

"Crap, I'm wearing my Old underwear", that sounds horrible. Shouldn't crap in your underwear.

Why don’t you test these M1-laptops with EXTERNAL cooling?

and this video wa brought you by tim cook's basement

the battery will (probably) last less because of the heat.

$30?... Heck, ill do it with my drill for $5

Ironic that the Macbook Air is the one without airflow

Sorry but this a bullshit, click bait video. Shame you.

“Don’t fix it if it ain’t broke” Clearly that logic went out the window, haha

So how thick are the thermal pads? 3mm?

Lol that wallpaper

Meanwhile in Apple HQ - Note that down NOTE THAT DOWN

It is called heat capacity not heat mass.

Could you do the same to the MacBook pro to increase performance?

Apple continuiously builds junk after junk after junk. No wonder apple's Icar will be Ijunk IT.

So you could do the mod and only use this on some kind of desk stand with air exposure and enjoy your MBP eh.

So would one of the laptop cooling pads make this mod actually comfortable enough?

No fans, just passive cooling? Having Apple 3 flashbacks.

The MacBooks from early 2006, they ran the fans at base rates of 1000 RPM... The systems would run at about 60 C and would be uncomfortably hot when being used as portable workstations. This is why with MacBooks from late 2006 and later, the fans were spun at a default of 2000 RPM. How does the modded MacBook Air M1 compare to the 2019 MacBook Air in terms of ambient temperature when running CPU-intensive workloads?

don't say you used my idea when I commented on your discussion blog that "use the body as a heatsink for m.2 ssd" in video where you used m.2 ssd with some sort on connector to be used as a USB

Imagine using that modded macbook while its placed in your lap

what thickness thermal pads were used here?

Is it me or the video color looks a little on the warm side?

I put my laptop in the freezer when ever it get hot. It cool down asap no issues.

Wouldn't this affect the battery in a negative way? Heating the bottom part of the mac would alson cause the battery to run hotter or am I completely wrong in this?

Add fans somewhere in air...

I really love the fact that the Macbook AIR has no fan!

Or simply put laptop base with vent :D

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Anyone knows the thickness of thermal pad that Linus uses ? 1mm or 1.5mm ?

ok now i will buy macbook air cus linus just solved the cooling problem

two sponsorships in one videoo? GET THAT BAG LINUSSSS.

Who colour graded this footage? Why is Linus so pink?

I just finished running Cinebench after the mod and my 10 minute score went from 7067 to 7687. The bottom panel got a bit toasty but it's hardly a burn hazard. I can understand Apple's reluctance to making them this way from the factory, because they didn't want people complaining that their notebooks run too hot, not realizing that the panel is acting like a heat sink.

What’s the thickness of the thermal pads? Thinking of putting a little in my old 2014 MacBook Air to help it live a bit longer.

Now could you perform a similar upgrade to the M1 MacBook Pro? Cause if the Air's performance is boosted to the level of the Pro... then how far could we take the Pro??

don't let Nixon cuts get in the way.

after i applied liquid metal to my 2013 macbook pro it became uncomfortably hot while gaming, so i can confirm at least partially

I appreciate the aesthetic lighting and environment improvements in those new LTT videos.