The key difference between the new and old MacBook Air is the lack of a fan. IFixit experts told about it, the report on dismantling of Apple laptops is available on the community site.
Enthusiasts took apart the new M1-based MacBook Pros and Airs and compared them with notebooks Intel . The reviewers showed the internal components of the devices and noted that the new MacBook Air differs from the old one, which was introduced in early 2020, by the lack of a fan. The experts positively assessed the rejection of the cooler due to the fact that the new computer has fewer moving parts that may fail in the future. “From time to time, you will need to change the thermal paste, that’s all,” – says the description of the device.
After the experts disassembled the MacBook Pro, they said that it was practically no different from the previous device in the series. “The new computer looks so familiar from the inside that we had to double-check if we had accidentally bought the old model,” the authors joked. Enthusiasts stressed that visually the cooling system of the MacBook Pro on the M1 is very similar to the cooling system of Apple laptops based on Intel processors: “Nothing special, just a copper tube that removes heat from the processor to a small heatsink.
Also, when dismantling the components of the current MacBook Pro, experts noticed that Apple has introduced new modules memory. They resemble those found on iPads. In conclusion, the experts said that the RAM and internal memory dies are soldered on the motherboard, which does not make it impossible to upgrade the laptop yourself.
Apple computers based on their own M1 processor were presented at the presentation on November 10 … The company showed MacBook Pro and Air laptops and a Mac mini desktop computer, the cost of which starts c 130, 100 and 75 thousand rubles, respectively.