[toyg]

Fans are my big worry, as I prepare to move off macs. An MBP is virtually fanless when not attached to an external monitor or strained by games. Not “there is a bit of a whirr but you get used to it” - it’s actual silence. It’s so difficult to get something like that from non-Apple, and it seems impossible with Linux. Unfortunately it’s also the sort of thing you cannot really judge by specs.

[ktpsns]

I have a ThinkPad X1 Yoga since five years (gen1, 2016-19, gen2 since last year) and it is silent 99% of the time. You have to run with full load several minutes for turning up the fan. This is especially valid for the aluminium ThinkPad. Running Linux on it, never Windows :)