The Air hasn’t had the best track record with thermals-it was starting to gain a reputation-and the cooling solutions in some other Apple notebooks are famously anemic. Recent history arguably warrants a little pessimism here. If that move has you groaning slightly, we understand. In what a pessimist might describe as pulling a Microsoft, Apple nixed the fan in favor of a simple aluminum heat spreader hanging off the left edge of the logic board. The biggest physical change to either of these machines is also the punniest: The Air no longer actively moves air. Meanwhile, the new MacBook Air’s biggest move was to … eliminate the fan. The new 13” MacBook Pro looks so familiar inside, we had to double-check that we didn’t accidentally purchase the old model. While Apple touts its M1-powered Macs as nothing short of a revolution, internally, they could hardly be any more similar to their predecessors. We’ll spill all the details below, but suffice to say, our curiosity has been rewarded in the most unintuitive way possible.

Except… we opened them from the other side. Like Craig Federighi before us, today we’re opening up the new M1 MacBooks and seeing the light.

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