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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by schleck8 on Monday October 18, 2021 @02:32PM (#28909413)
>that (apparently) matches a 3070

I don't want to know the thermals on the laptop then.

There is a reason for the 3070 being available with a minimum of 2 large fans and liquid cooling existing at all. How do you want to cool the same performance in a thin laptop? With passive airflow?

For reference, this is what a laptop with the mobile (!) version of a 3070 looks like:

https://gzhls.at/i/89/84/2618984-n1.jpg

It's also 1199 euros, just saying.

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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by jzymbaluk on Monday October 18, 2021 @02:35PM (#28909477)
I noticed the feet on this laptop seem a lot more prominent than previous iterations, and I'm sure the reason is to allow better airflow
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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by nicoburns on Monday October 18, 2021 @03:07PM (#28910058)
That would make a lot of sense. I've noticed that my 2015 MBP deals with heat a lot better if it's raised up off the surface it's sitting on.
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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by JohnBooty on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @05:56PM (#28924291)
They do seem more prominent.

It's not clear to me that's a cooling win, though? Unless there are actually some kind of vents on the bottom?

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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by lowbloodsugar on Monday October 18, 2021 @04:10PM (#28910960)
The thermals: https://live.arstechnica.com/apple-october-18-unleashed-even...
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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by schleck8 on Monday October 18, 2021 @04:34PM (#28911331)
Passive airflow and a heatsink?
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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by mastax on Monday October 18, 2021 @07:45PM (#28913284)
There's two fans so: not passive.
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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by kolinko on Monday October 18, 2021 @06:27PM (#28912606)
They claim m1 has 4x less power use when running at full speed, so thermal output will also be 4x less
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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by nine_k on Tuesday October 19, 2021 @04:28AM (#28916004)
CPU is completely dwarfed by GPU here.
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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by keymone on Monday October 18, 2021 @05:09PM (#28911790)
given how m1 macs perform, thermals significantly better than any laptop with non-apple stuff inside.

nvidia/amd just don't design with thermals in mind and that's exactly why you need to attach multiple helicopters to every piece of their hardware.

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Re:MacBook Pro 14-inch and MacBook Pro 16-inch by arecurrence on Monday October 18, 2021 @02:51PM (#28909779)
3070 is Samsung 8nm vs what I believe they said was TSMC 5nm here? Being an all new architecture perhaps it also has more design thermal improvements.
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