Comment by nottorp
7 months ago
Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I use a laptop for real work as little as possible.
Long term high CPU usage goes on a properly silent and easy to repaste (and LARGE ofc) desktop.
As a consequence, the oldest laptop I have around (a 2009 macbook white) is just fine(tm) noise wise.
Maybe a dumb question then, but is dust buildup just as much a function of work/use as of time? I guess that is reasonable.
I don't know, because right now I'm replying from my laptop while being on my balcony, which is open to the real world(tm) and thus has a lot more dust than the inside of my home.
I've used all my laptops like that and they're still silent [1].
[1] Silent, but the keyboard is broken on the old emoji keyboard macbook pro, may whoever designed it and stuck to it burn in whatever hell they believe in forever.
You are old fashioned. An M-series MacBook Pro is the most “work” machine almost anybody needs. Almost anybody.
Yeah I have one. And a mac mini plugged into 2 monitors. And a beige box running linux and windows, depending on what i need at the moment.