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I got this laptop about a month ago. My two complaints are 1) the fan gets surprisingly loud, sometimes for no reason 2) the webcam is very bad (720p 7FPS?!)

I will say I'm impressed that the fan can't be picked up by the mic, I wonder if System76 did any custom work there. I wear cupped headphones so I don't hear it much myself. Did you have the fan problem though, just curious? Maybe I can decrease the fan speed in the BIOS...

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The fan isn’t any worse than compiling code on a MacBook Pro for me so I don’t really mind, it’s just something I accept with the form factor of the laptop. Also, it’s a Ryzen desktop CPU in a laptop that doesn’t throttle, so my expectations for the fan being quiet were low.

I use an external webcam with an external monitor most of the time.