Does the Macbook Air Have a Fan ?

hate laptop fans
assumed that the air was a fanless setup and then saw something that changed my thinking
does the 13" air (october 2010) come with a fan ?

right, yes ...
i am a little obsessive about fan noise, it drives me nuts
i have had apple laptops and they tend to be state of the art when it comes to running quiet (my imac is virtually silent)
i recently bought and returned a dell vostro v130 which uses hyperbaric cooling and which also runs nearly silent (i returned it because i just couldn't learn to live with windows 7)
i assumed because of the size of the air and the weight and the fact that it uses an ssd that it would be passively cooled but the core duo won't allow that i guess
i owned a dell mini 9 which IS passively cooled by a large heatsink and doesn't have a fan ... it ran an intel atom processor which is a very different processor from the core duo (slower and cooler)
the new google chromebooks are passively cooled i think but again use very low power processors
as you say joeyr, once you put any kind of power in a laptop i guess you need a fan ...

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