Agreed this is sad. My plan was:

- Do programming, articles/books writing, and web browsing on the DB4.

- Game on the macbook pro (Mostly Blizzard games such as Starcraft and WoW).

This plan crashed when Blizzard stopped releasing its games on mac. D2R did not get the treatment and D4 won't get it either.

If you are ever annoyed by the noise, you can build a silent gaming rig with a mosterlabo case, needs more space though.

Not affiliated, just a fan.

https://www.monsterlabo.com

Worth mentioning that a very slow fan (at 600-800 rpm) is essentially silent. If it only spins up a little when you game you probably won't hear it from the sounds on the game.

You can outfit their cases with those and enjoy Cyberpunk in 4K with Ray Tracing on a RTX3080 with 50 min FPS!

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jYB-RpkmUc

While his machine is no longer current, the dream of the fanless computer lives on very strong. The Macbook Air no longer has a fan and is a tiny little machine with strength to spare and passive cooling.

The Air doesn't work well at peak loads for extended periods of time. The use case is very different for gaming.

I do not think it is obsolete, just that his original design was inappropriate for his needs. The power supply + GPU are still more than adequate for any task that is not gaming or video rendering.

A ten year old processor can do most anything you need.