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   On 20/10/2025 00:13, Daniel wrote:   
   > Has anyone here looked at, or purchased, a one up rpi laptop? I've   
   > read a few reviews of it and, while it appears to be a solid product,   
   > I'm a bit turned off by the cooling fan next to the heat sync. Is that   
   > fan absolutely necessary for users never intending on overclocking the   
   > cpu?   
      
   I have now received my Argon One Up and had the chance to play with it a    
   bit.   
      
   The CM5 has a thermal pad to connect it to the metal cover that acts as    
   a heatsink, but the cover doesn't get more than slightly warm in    
   operation. The fan does not come on in normal use, but I should stress    
   that I haven't exactly thrashed the CPU -- I'm not overclocking and I    
   haven't tried any heavily compute-intensive tasks.   
      
   The CM5 does not support a power-saving mode, so closing the lid can't    
   put it into a sleep state. When the lid is closed the display is blanked    
   and there is an option to power down after a few minutes (default 5).    
   That's not idea if you're used to carrying a laptop around in sleep    
   state for rapid restart (I'm not: I always power down for security    
   reasons, so it doesn't bother me).   
      
   All in all it's a well-made unit. The screen is nice (and bright) and    
   the keyboard is not awful. The touchpad is also not awful, I've used    
   better but I've also used much worse.   
      
   One gripe is that the SSD bay has screw holes for retaining an 2280,    
   2260, or 2242 M.2 SSD, but not 2230 (so guess which size I wanted to    
   fit). 2230 will work, but without a retaining screw it could work loose.   
      
   I thought, at first, that my webcam was broken, but I discovered that    
   there is a (tiny) slider that puts it into "privacy mode"; with that in    
   the correct position it works nicely.   
      
   One quirk I haven't solved yet is that a USB mouse is recognized and    
   works correctly if plugged in after booting, but if it is connected    
   before startup it is not recognized. I have also not yet managed to boot    
   from an SD card (USB stick is fine) but I have only tried one card and    
   there may be an issue with its contents. Reading/writing the SD card    
   after booting from SSD works fine.   
      
   I'm not sure that the One Up is very good value with the current crazy    
   prices for Raspberry Pi kit with high RAM capacity and for SSDs (it was    
   good at the kickstarter price) ... but I suppose other laptops will    
   suffer similar price-hikes, too.   
      
   --    
   Cheers,   
     Daniel.   
      
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