Is Microsoft Surface RT 100% fanless?

Is Microsoft Surface RT 100% fanless? As in, 100% no moving parts AT ALL in it?

Any credible information regarding this?

My wife has a Surface RT - pretty sure there are no moving parts (never heard a fan)

@FoolsDesign: I'm pretty certain my SurfaceRT is solid-state -- no fan noise at all, doesn't rattle when you shake it.  This was the main reason I went for the SurfaceRT because I needed something my kids could use and abuse.

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1 hour ago, FoolsDesign wrote

Is Microsoft Surface RT 100% fanless? As in, 100% no moving parts AT ALL in it?

These are not the same thing.

Anyway, it has speakers,  volume rocker buttons, and a power switch. Do you consider those to be moving parts? Then yes, it has moving parts. If not: no, it has none, and certainly no fans. See for yourself: http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Teardown/11275/1

Definitely no fan on the RT (using one right now). The only moving parts are the buttons on the outside.

And the kickstand

What exactly are you getting at? Why does it matter if there are no moving parts?

It's pretty resilient...you can use it as a skateboard, remember?

No fans at all.

The thing is always cold to the touch.

Check iFix .com, something like that. RT may not have fan, Pro has fan on the CUP.

@MasterPie: I can vouch for the resilience. My wife dropped hers on it's corner onto asphalt. It crumpled the corner a little, but no other ill effects. She's since become very paranoid about hanging onto it.

I meant fan ( I know it has no HDD so it's nice. ). I hate fans. It's a foolish design.

I'll be ordering one Surface RT then. I got a Windows Server 2012 running Hyper-V so I need something "thin-clienty" and nice to connect to my "real" PC which is a Windows 8 virtual machine with Office 2013... inside that one. Perfect.

I like to have a clean super private virtual machine for my important stuff and some crap local one for watching gootube or netflix.

Bit pricey though but meh...

Just for the record, it does not mean I like Windows 8. I dislike many things in Windows 8 and Office 2013 and would never ever recommend any of my customers to buy them. I just like new stuff, new versions, new anything... even if they suck. (Had to put that little addendum.)

Thanks.

"Well thank you for your opinion". Said no one, ever.

Got to handle some Surface RTs this week. I was kind of surprised by how heavy they were. Sturdy though.

18 hours ago, Bas wrote

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These are not the same thing.

 

Not sure why a percentage is being used where the result is Boolean, i.e. it either has a fan or not, unless it is possible to have a 38% or 63% fan.

@vesuvius: good point. Would a device that consists solely of fans be 0% fanless? Say you have a device where half the space is taken up by fans. Is that device 50% fanless? Do we judge the percentage of fan by the amount of physical space they occupy, by their weight, or something else? These are questions that need answers.

Well, a device is a collection of parts. 100% fanless means no part has a need for a fan. Sometimes, when a part needs a small fan it is referred to as fanless by som fools because "it's so small, you can barely hear it.".

Anyway, if you got 100 parts and 1 part is in need of a fan, your device would be 1% fanny.

Then of course, there are all these fans (people) following a device. They might be considered fans as well. Although, in regards to Surface RT, I think we can almost safely assume that it is indeed 100% fan less.

1 hour ago, FoolsDesign wrote

100% fanless means no part has a need for a fan.

Not having a fan is not the same as not needing a fan. Apple has managed to demonstrate this a number of times in the past.

@FoolsDesign: Your entire reason to start this thread was to make that joke, wasn't it?