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Same. It's hot, loud, and still never feels as fast as it should.

Loud? it's the quietest machine I ever had. No problems so far (9370 model)

Mine is the 9360 with the i7-8550U. In high performance mode, it's a hair drier. In balanced, the fan is a constant annoying whine if I have, for example, Webpack in watch mode, or am typing code quickly and keeping the IDE's language service active, or if any browser tab has any active JS at all. Basically if the CPU is at a reasonable speed and at 20% load, constant fan noise.

It's quiet if I have it in "silent" mode, but then I might as well be using a 350$ machine, as far as performance is concerned.

Maybe you have a slower CPU, or they fixed the thermals in your model?

Then I'm glad I have the '18 model, despite the USB-C tyranny. I don't know if they fixed stuff, but it's a pleasant experience so far. CPU is i5-8250I with Windows 10 if feels snappy.

https://imgur.com/a/afvqtbQ

The fan is running at around 10%, barely noticeable.

I have 9360 with i5-7200U. I've just checked, fan kicks in after 90 seconds of sha1sum /dev/zero and stays always on lowest RPMs. 25C ambient. With 50% core load at 3.1GHz it stays silent most of the time...

50% at 3.1GHZ would make for one noisy experience here. Either mine's a lemon, or, more likely, there's no way to get a CPU like the i7-8550U into such a small case without causing thermal issues.

Same here.

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