Frore's AirJet Mini Slim seems like a significant fanless cooling upgrade, but the lack of adoption for the original AirJet is worrying

It's been a year since the public launch of the original Frore AirJet, a compact cooling solution that makes use of an innovative membrane-based method for moving hot air away from internal components. At CES 2024 Frore was keen to show off its latest model, the AirJet Mini Slim, with the promise that it delivers excellent cooling performance and useful new features, like a thinner design, intelligent self-cleaning, and the capability to sense its surrounding temperature and optimise performance accordingly. 

This all sounds well and good, but given the lack of adoption of the original AirJet and a distinct lack of global testing, is there something we're missing? 

Back in December 2022 we covered a collaboration between Intel and Frore Systems to integrate the AirJet into the Intel Evo platform. It was shown alongside a potentially exciting case study where a single AirJet Pro was used to cool down the APU in what looked like a Steam Deck, and that made a whole lot of sense. Intel's Evo laptops were designed to be small and slim, and the original Steam Deck produced a fair amount of noise when running at heavy load. 

A thin and powerful cooling solution, which runs quietly and efficiently would be a perfect solution for either, and yet both the release versions of these devices and subsequent refreshes remain conventionally cooled.

A quick look at Frore's website reveals a page that directs you as to where to buy AirJet enabled products, and it's a list with a grand total of, err, one. One device, the Zotac Zbox Pico P1430AJ, a system that labels itself as the world's smallest Mini PC. Two AirJet Minis are said to remove «an additional 10+ watts of heat», which does seem to suggest that the Zotac unit may well be