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Re:If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try c... by johnmaguire2013 on Thursday April 23, 2020 @04:26PM (#22960866)
I don't think the parent was saying that a thick laptop is going to be better - but rather that when you are making a device as thin as possible, and that's the metric you index on, cooling performance WILL suffer.

It's not just that they haven't put enough engineering effort in - they consciously made a design tradeoff.

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Re:If a MacBook Pro runs hot or shows high kernel CPU, try c... by dijit on Thursday April 23, 2020 @04:36PM (#22961018)
I still think it can be done, whether it's sacrificing performance or rethinking the thermal design to include a smaller battery and a larger heat pipes, or simply using a lower TDP CPU..

But yeah it's all trade-offs.

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