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Linus Tech Tips Water-Cools a 2020 MacBook Air

Linus Tech Tips · Demo · 17 min · 2020 · YouTube title: Fixing Apple's Engineering in an Hour
Why it's here

Cited in Apple thermal-design debates as evidence the Intel-era MacBook cooling was poor.

What it covers

Linus Tech Tips water-cools a 2020 MacBook Air, tearing it down and showing the cooling design along the way. The video shows the gap between the CPU lid and die and how little the stock heatsink does.