What Apple failed: craftsmen coped with overheating MacBook Air M2

The 2022 MacBook Air, which hit stores last week, features the latest M2 processor. And although he

faster than M1, MacBook Air has no fan– which can make the laptop quite hot when performing heavy work processes. However, the YouTuber managed to correct this defect by spending very little money. Discuss

Although Apple's silicon chips can run smoothly without an advanced cooling system, they still get very hot depending on the tasks the user is working on.

As shown in one of the latest youtuber videosMax Tech, just remove the bottom cover of the laptop and add a $15 thermal pad above the logic board where the M2 chip is located to improve the performance and cooling of the new laptop. The thermal pad is able to quickly transfer heat from the chip and logic board to the surface of the MacBook. As a result, the MacBook will not heat up as much, resulting in more consistent performance.

And as it turns out, it really works.In one of his tests, a YouTuber ran processes that took an unmodified laptop 2 minutes and 55 seconds to complete, while a thermally padded MacBook did it in just 1 minute and 56 seconds.

During testing, the temperature of the unmodified M2 MacBook Air reached 108°C, while the maximum temperature of the modified MacBook was 97°C.