M4 MacBook Air Thermal Mod BEAT MacBook Pro
I installed some thermal pads inside my M4 MacBook Air and got it to beat my M4 MacBook Pro in a Lightroom Batch Export of 537 Photos! It got ALMOST the same Cinebench score also.
Thermal Pads: https://amzn.to/460zcZ0
Heat Sinks: https://amzn.to/45ZK6OH
The tiny USB fan: https://amzn.to/40fvTJN
Laptop Cooler: https://amzn.to/4e96eIB
M4 MacBook Air: https://amzn.to/3FKx4Kx
I tested this thermal mod three different ways; no fan, a laptop cooler and a custom heat sink with its own fan. The idea is to stop M4 MacBook Air from Thermal Throttling so it can perform closer to the M4 MacBook Pro. Turns out its not very difficult to do, though you do have to disassemble part of the case.
0:00 Intro
0:24 Specs
1:19 All About Thermal Management
4:36 Mods and Tests Begin
5:18 Thermal Imaging
5:38 Baseline Scores
5:51 Lightroom Export Test Baseline
6:20 Disassemble MacBook Air and Install Thermal Pads
8:12 Cinebench With Thermal Pads
9:26 Add Laptop Cooler
11:12 Add Heat Sink
12:26 MacBook Air beats MacBook Pro
Heres a list of that stuff in case you want to buy it because you like how it looks!
The Lens: https://amzn.to/3XMLMWY
The camera: https://amzn.to/4kOvRBm
The slider that moves the camera back and fourth: https://amzn.to/3FrtwMx
The other camera: https://amzn.to/4kR5Lxy
My main light: https://amzn.to/3FtSP0p
My haze machine: https://amzn.to/3FpKX07