the macbook air doesnt need cooling okay

it uses a 5 watt processor

the fan is just to cool the chassis!!!

>cool the chassis

it's not a 12" macbook the cpu has its own heatsink

I'm confused, netbooks have started being fanless depending on the model, usually lowspec ones (not talking about arm chromebooks). Aren't Macbook Airs just fancy netbooks for sluts?

no

kinda weird from apple since one of the older macbook models was pasively cooled through the actual chassis

dont see why they couldnt have expanded that to their other models

they lost their good engineers

"lost""

more like driven away

because marketers run the company now

Computers used in military vehicles are all passively cooled through their boxes. Apple could market a passively cooled laptop as "designed with military class engineering philosophy"

But I'm not sure their target audience would like that

I'd like it tho, like those fully solid state toughbooks, or my thinkpad with a very non aggressive fan profile, rarely turns on

something is randomly raping my disk

how can I find out what it is?

my entire computer freezes when it spikes like that

click on the open resource monitor button at the bottom

and go to the disk tab

ah nice

It's "System" with PID 4

that shouldn't be

constantly doing 155 MB/s

and sometimes spiking

Is it windows downloading a big update?

Doing a backup or system restore point of some kind?

that's what I thought, too, so now I'm manually running windows update

though I'm within my "active hours" so it shouldn't be doing that, no?

it should also specify which file

it does not specify, it's just 3 columns. Process, Pid and how much disk io

Now I did Win Update and I also unchecked "Allow apps to run in the background"

it's my first time windows so I might just have colossally fucked something up

fold open the disk activity tab

lol I totally didn't see that

it doesn't seem to be spiking anymore, I'm keeping it open on the second screen just in case though

i've heard that microsoft forces to update to 1903 version of windows

probably that