Ubiquiti U7 Pro Max WiFi 7 Access Point Teardown: To fan or not to fan

This is a teardown of the Ubiquiti U7 Pro Max to see if we still get a cooling fan. Do you think they went with passive cooling this time?
#ubiquiti #teardown #accesspoint #wifi7

[@wayward79]

Would love to see a teardown of the U7 Outdoor and see if that has a fan and what kind of water ingress mitigations it has in place. Is it more glue? Rubber Gasket? And if it doesn’t have a fan, what kind of passive cooling system does it use as it could be mounted outside in direct sunlight so could get very cooked!

[@SamsTechnologyReviews]

From what other users have said, the U7 Outdoor also has a cooling fan, so this is the heat management for the entire series. Also, it is IPX6 rated, so there is decent protection from the elements. I can't promise a teardown since I blew the budget on the U7 Pro and the Max already :D. But who knows, maybe Ubiquiti will lend me one.

[@stevenj5387]

Strange fact: 2.4Ghz antennas are shared with 6GHz ones.. Normally 6GHz should have much smaller ones, that 2.4Ghz...

[@andreacoppini]

Those are generic wideband antennas, they'll handle anything usually all the way up to 7Ghz or 10Ghz. They're not tuned for any frequency so they don't do a great job, but they work. There are 3 horizontally polarized and 3 vertically polarized antennas. Strange that the 2G/6G radios are both connected to identically polarized antennas so there's no polarization diversity on 2G/6G. I think those are horizontally polarized too, which is even weirder since most laptops and phones in portrait orientation are usually vertically polarized.

[@davidrobertson411]

Crazy that an AP has over half the ram of a base model Mac...

[@CalifornianSupremacy]

Dude I know “Apple bad” is a really fun trend but eMMC memory as was stated in the video refers to storage. It’s not RAM……

[@davidrobertson411]

I'll fully admit I didn't catch it was eMMC. My bad. My comment wasn't meant to hurt the feelings of an Apple apologist, just point out that it was a lot of RAM for an AP, and if it was RAM it would have been a lot, considering it's 4x what it actually has. If you're happy paying huge mark-ups on parts to buy trendy electronics, and have a company dictate how you can use your computer, more power to ya! I just think differently.

[@Aerith17]

Nice Asus/Gamers Nexus fiasco joke ;)

[@SamsTechnologyReviews]

After seeing that small scuff, I got a bit worried. Not that it matters that much for me since I usually destroy my devices. But hopefully, it was an isolated case.