The lack of a cooling fan on the M3 MacBook Air has severe consequences, as it throttles due to extremely high temperatures
Apple continues to employ a fan-less cooling design for 13-inch and 15-inch M3 MacBook Air models, and while that means users will be pleased about the completely silent operation, they will lose out on a ton of performance. The M3 MacBook Pro, which sports a single fan, can offer significantly improved sustained performance while touting the same SoC, as demonstrated in a series of tests. It is also worth mentioning that the M3 MacBook Air gets uncomfortably toasty, which we hope Apple can address in future iterations.For quick performance bursts, the M3 MacBook Air can perform faster than the M3 MacBook Pro
The 15-inch M3 MacBook Air was in the possession of the YouTube channel Max Tech, who immediately pointed out that Apple incorporated the same fan-less heatsink design as before, but there was a possibility that the power efficiency of the latest M3 would mean that the machine would throttle less than those sporting the M2.
