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tzm41 said:

This setting is just to mimic a use case when the user is browsing different websites, and is completely fair since CR uses it across all laptops.

Exactly what I was thinking. Thanks!

hmlongco said:

There's also Liquid Metal. Harder, more scratch resistant, and transparent to RF.
People keep forgetting Apple's patents and investment in that company and technology...

Are you kidding? Apple can't innovate.   /s.

The EU is contending that Apple and Ireland colluded to form an illegal partnership, against EU tax law.  So why is Ireland not being penalized as well? Why just Apple?

planetary paul said:

Well, I think "updraft flow in the winter" is not very smart. In a room without fan warm air from the heating system collects at the ceiling and stays there, useless to the occupants. So the updraft is already there, no fan needed.

Incorrect.  The updraft setting allows the air to be blown across the ceiling, and then down the walls to the floor.  Mixing occurs very well, especially in the vaulted ceilings of my house.  Furthermore, allowing the warm air to travel down the walls helps remove condensation from the windows, keeping them clear in winter, too.  Blowing air downward from the fan in winter causes a central hotspot, and then the air spreads across the floor, rising along the sidewalls, providing less condensation removal, and poorer movement of the hottest air which tends to stay in a layer across the ceiling above the fan level (depending upon how far from the ceiling your fan hangs).

I bet it won't even turn off or on with a clap of my hands.