476: Plausibly Viable
Accidental Tech Podcast
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Why the Mac Studio Is So Loud
The fans in the Mac studio are not just cooling the chip They're also cooling the power supply which needs cooling no matter the load. The M1 Mac mini has got a fairly beefy, you know oversized power supply from the Intel version still inside there and It's basically silent. But it seems like the math still isn't quite that up. Yeah, I mean also, you know The iMac Pro had a massive power supply in it supplying Hundreds of watts to with all the guts of that machine and that was silent. That people are saying this is audible at all because they've set the fan minimum to be so audible when it seems like it probably shouldn't be necessary.
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