MacBook Air With ‘Fanless’ Solution Gets Modded With Frore’s AirJet Solid-State Cooler; Performance Jumps To MacBook Pro-Level

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Frore’s AirJet cooling solution was previewed during this year’s CES trade show, with the idea being to introduce solid-state coolers to laptops that can perform just as well without forcing manufacturers to increase their thickness to improve heat dissipation. The same cooler can be applied to Apple’s MacBook Air lineup, which currently features the M2 chipsets that are cooled using a ‘fanless’ heatsink.

At this time, Frore’s AirJets are not commercially available, though the company is working with several laptop makers to bring this solution to the masses. Fortunately, the Airjet does not have to be readily available now, not when the same cooler can be retrofitted in the MacBook Air, allowing it to perform on par with a MacBook Pro, which actually sports an active cooling fan.

Let us provide a brief explanation for those who do not know what the AirJet is. Frore has created a thin assembly of different materials that make the membranes vibrate. A back-pressure is made to push air in a certain direction. In functionality, the AirJet works similarly to a traditional laptop fan but without taking up so much valuable space, giving laptop manufacturers the freedom to reduce the thickness of their future models.

With the MacBook Pro, PCWorld demonstrated the AirJet on the 15-inch MacBook Air and ran some tests before and after retrofitting the cooler. Since the portable Mac features a ‘fanless’ cooler design, the M2 can almost immediately thermal throttle, with its performance unable to reach its full potential. According to Macworld, the M2 MacBook Air was 7 percent slower than the MacBook Pro, featuring the same silicon while running Cinebench R23.

However, with Frore’s AirJet in action, both models were on par when running