Performance Test of Apple 15-inch MacBook Air using passive Heat dissipation

CTOnews.com, June 13, Apple's 15-inch MacBook Air officially goes on sale today, offering four looks: midnight, starry sky, silver and deep sky gray. The Bank of China version starts at 10499 yuan and education discounts start at 9699 yuan.

13-inch MacBook Air disassembly picture Apple has adopted a passive heat dissipation design in order to keep the 15-inch MacBook Air thin. Foreign science and technology media WccFtech believes that this performance may lead to poor heat dissipation and affect its operating performance.

The overall weight of the 15-inch MacBook Air is 22% heavier than the 13-inch model, mainly because it uses all-aluminum alloy, which greatly increases the weight.

Foreign science and technology media The Verge said in the evaluation that after running the 15-inch MacBook Air for a period of time, although it did not reach the extent that it could not be used, the keyboard part did get hot, affecting the use experience.

The evaluation of CTOnews.com translation is as follows:

In the process of use, the user can feel the heat, and the heat is mainly concentrated near the function key. Users can enter normally, but affect the input experience. If you often need to export videos, you need to pay attention to this.

Apple's 15-inch MacBook Air, like the 13-inch, doesn't have a fan, but it has more room to cool off. On the whole, compared with the 13-inch MacBook Pro, the 15-inch MacBook Air, which also carries the M2 chip, does not have much difference in performance.

The media speculated that Apple deliberately did not equip the MacBook Air with fans to dissipate heat, so that users could distinguish between MacBook Pro product lines and allow users with performance needs to buy Pro products.