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dangusyesterday at 10:46 PM3 repliesview on HN

Name one ASUS laptop with zero cooling fans.


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Marsymarsyesterday at 11:12 PM

The ASUS BR1204?

That's kind of a weird one because the PC market has notably regressed there over the past few years. Other than the Surface Pro 12 there've been no fanless PC laptops released since 2022-ish, when there used to be dozens.

On a technical basis, fanless PC laptops released now would be better than the ones in 2022 just on the basis of 2022 lineup having a moribund lineup of CPUs (Snapdragon SQ1, Amber Lake, etc.) You could release a lineup now that would be broadly competitive with the M1 at least, but it doesn't seem to be a market segment that PC OEMs are interested in.

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guywithahattoday at 5:07 AM

I didn't even think about that, fans are the bane of my existence

ajrossyesterday at 10:52 PM

I believe the whole Vivobook Go line is fanless, actually.

But again, the point isn't to get into a shouting match over whose proxied anatomy is largest. It's to try to explain why the market as a whole doesn't move the way you think it should. And it's clearly not about fans.