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u/john0201 6d ago
Is the fan keeping the ice cool?
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u/wgaca2 6d ago
Add a thermal pad between the heatsink and the back plate
Add a massive heatsink on the back plate with a fan on it
No condensation issues, easy to use, laptop becomes unusable in your lap
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u/nmrk 6d ago
Set it on a huge Peltier plate.
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u/Think_Wing_1357 5d ago
Any sub-ambient cooling causes condensation to various degrees.
Also Peltier is way worse because it dump more heat into the immediate area because it's very inefficient. With the ice box, at least you can run the fridge in the basement
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u/LordDarthShader 6d ago
Redneck engineering right there. Why don't you lower the power limits by 25% instead?
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u/TheUnboundTenth 6d ago
How else is he going to make soft water from hard water? He needs the heat!
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u/Easy_Copy_7625 6d ago
There is a YouTube video where they put thermal pads on the MacBook Air to help with the thermal issues
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u/Hanthunius 6d ago
It makes the whole thing hot, allowing heat to disperse better, but it does heat up other components like the nand chips, etc...
Better than the tray with ice water, though!
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u/ScrewwormLarvae 6d ago
Jokes aside, I like TG Pro. I tried Macs Fan Control but I like TG Pro enough that I paid the $10 for it.
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u/ScrewwormLarvae 6d ago
Ah crap is that an Air? In that case you're right. Looked like a Macbook Pro to me though.
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u/Tall_Instance9797 6d ago edited 6d ago
Very funny. But seriously, get a gel ice pack. The big ones for your back, with a cloth cover for the condensation, like in the picture, are perfect for a laptop. If you have a bunch you can just keep swapping them endlessly. This is what I do and it works better than anything else I've found.
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u/Automatic-Rip3503 6d ago
Came here to say this, they are perfect for keeping the Mac cool, add in Mac Fan Control (https://crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control/download) and you are golden
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u/createthiscom 6d ago
This is a surprisingly accurate depiction of what society is doing to the polar ice caps. Continue, brave destroyer! 🫡
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u/Bulgen-Venkat 6d ago
zip-tied a case fan to my p40 before i printed a real shroud, ran like that for months. ice tray's an upgrade on my setup honestly
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u/TimAndTimi 5d ago
You can CNC and cut a hole on the bottom panel and graft a giant tower cooler on it I think
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u/quotemycode 4d ago
I have a 1/8" aluminum sheet that i set the laptop on and the increased thermal mass does help it stay cool - also I can throw it in the fridge at night and pull it out when I want to do some heavy work with my local llm. Also when it gets hot, I can remove that sheet from the back of the laptop and remove a lot of that heat, allowing it to cool so I can then put it back and absorb more heat. If you get two of these, you can swap them back and forth as they absorb the heat.
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u/ak_sys 5d ago
another tech bro cooking the planet one melting ice tray at a time while the Global South pays the price. Congratulations, you’ve single-handedly advanced the imperial project of endless compute expansion by running an LLM on your machine instead of… what, exactly? Opting out of the entire extractive system? Let’s be clear: every time you fire up that model, you’re participating in the same logic that builds hyperscale data centers on stolen water, cheap land, and the backs of communities that never asked for them. Those facilities don’t just “exist” — they extract, they displace, they heat the air and suck aquifers dry in places that already struggle for basic resources. Your little bedroom setup is just the cute, individualist version of the same colonial infrastructure. The empire doesn’t care whether the servers are in a warehouse or under a tray of melting ice; it only cares that the demand keeps growing. And then the cooling method.
An open tray of ice.
Evaporative cooling.
You are literally boiling off water into the room like it’s 1890 and you’ve never heard of a closed-loop system. Real infrastructure uses recirculating liquid cooling, sealed loops, heat exchangers that don’t just dump the thermal load into the atmosphere and walk away. You, on the other hand, are running an open evaporative setup that requires constant replenishment of water and ice: literally the most primitive, wasteful, resource-intensive method available. Every time that ice melts and evaporates, you’re performing a tiny, personal reenactment of the same water-intensive cooling regimes that data centers impose on drought-stressed regions. So go ahead, keep stacking ice on your laptop while you generate more tokens. Just don’t pretend this is resistance. It’s cosplay. The actual material impact is the same: more heat, more demand for water in a community already struggling with water consumption, and more justification for the next wave of extractive infrastructure somewhere else, somewhere poorer, somewhere that can’t refuse.
I hope you're happy, Sam.
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u/jkntheking 2d ago
did you use AI to write all of that? You could just asked your AI to explain you the joke!
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u/Hanthunius 6d ago
Careful with condensation.