Louis opens new Macbook Air, immediately loses mind.

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Cites blkhawk · 2020-09 · on “Apple Tried Charging the Price of a New MacBook Pro for a Screen Replacement”

Louis Rossmann has something to say about the cooler design in the newest Macbook Aris. [this video] Not sure is the Pro is much better.

Critical LargoLasskhyfv · 2019-10 · on “Why Japan lost its comparative advantage in producing electronic parts”

I think you are writing about some past entity which has morphed into something different which has only the brand in common with that past. Or how else do you explain: 4min,45sec youtube video 'Louis opens new Macbook Air, immediately loses mind.' [1] [this video] where said Louis discovers placebo cooling. This is broken by design. They should apply quality control to their minds, because no amount of that elsewhere can fix that.

Critical mar77i · 2020-02 · on “MacBook Pro 16 Has a Fan Problem”

Oh, I've seen something similar recently. Not sure which macbook it was, but apparently, at least in some cases, Apple appears to be subscribing to the great benefits of placebo ventilation. [this video]

Critical read_if_gay_ · 2020-05 · on “8GB Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now at $75”

Counterexample: [this video] It does not take a genius to see how the cooling design is supposed to work. Him saying that fan is "for placebo effect" is certainly not fair.

Critical Zealotux · 2020-11 · on “GFXBench: Apple M1”

The idea of changing my 2015 MBP for something else is a tough one to accept, my biggest beef with the recent Air being the heat issues: the fan on the previous Air is so useless it's laughable[1] and they completely removed it on the new one, I remain skeptical. [1] [this video]

Critical vetinari · 2020-11 · on “Is Apple Silicon Ready?”

> and for a while now, the response from Intel has been a chip that thermal-throttles so hard in that form-factor that the performance has bombed it down to a lower class of computer. Are we talking about the same computer, where the fan is not even thermally connected with the CPU heatsink[1]? That's Apple's fsckup, not Intels. [1] [this video]

Critical rndgermandude · 2022-01 · on “$2,500 Ethernet Switch Effectively Isolates Audiophiles from Cash”

>Apple's product design and manufacturing is insanely good Apple might be qualitatively better than most, but I wouldn't call it quantitatively "insanely good". The product design often has major "bugs", like "you are holding it wrong" iPhone 4 or the macbook pro keyboards that stopped working a lot. I myself had a screen replacement once on a mbp 2015 model because the "protective coating" peeled off... a known problem and Apple replaced it for free even tho I was a few months outside of my warranty. And the power cable had a tendency to shed off the outer isolation layer and/or "fray", which is by no means a problem only I had given the many "how to fix" DIY youtube videos. Same thing with

Critical tourmalinetaco · 2025-12 · on “I'm returning my Framework 16”

You forgot: - inadequate cooling - fried NAND chips - screens spontaneously cracking - flexgate (not to be confused with bendgate) And that’s only a subset of the engineering failures with MacBooks. You even bring it up in your post: the only reason they have “dead silence” is because Apple is literally baking your laptop and leaving you to pay the bill. I’ll give Apple that their custom chips are pretty great for power and efficiency, but their actual product design is bad. I mean, who designs a laptop with the fan pointing the wrong way?[0] Or a power bus alongside a data bus?[1] These are literally basic errors that go into production for a company that is far too big for this to be happe