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MacBook Air - Fans Whirl with OS X Lion

August 10, 2011 19:53 by: E. Werner Reschke   9 Comments

Categories: MacBook , Review

Tagged: MacBook Air , OS_X_Lion , OS_X_Snow_Leopard

Apple MacBook Air - Fan Noise

As an owner of a 13" MacBook Air, one of the surprising benefits of upgrading to OS X Lion was the speed difference. Snow Leopard was nice, but wow, Lion took opening windows, using spotlight, launching apps, to entirely new level. This was not something that Apple touted (a faster OS), but from my experience, it's one of the best things about Lion, especially for those with the older Intel Core 2 Duo processor.

That said, there is a price I seem to be paying for that speed improvement — fan noise.

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