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Several things:The problem with thermal management is that all manufacturers are so obsessed with making laptops thinner and lighter that they are losing functionality. Yes, newer chips are more efficient and running cooler, but do you really need a 5mm thick laptop? If you want something that portable, get a tablet or mobile phone. I recently bought a new HP laptop and while I'll admit that the aluminium case is nice looking, stronger and does provide better heat dissipation than plastic, it is too thin to allow even a normal RJ45 port. That and the lack of an optical drive is a PITA. I just checked the age of my last "proper" laptop, a 2014 ThinkPad, this makes it 10 years old and I still use it constantly without any issues, plus I can easily swap out storage and other parts because most of it is easily accessible. When I first bought it, I immediately clean installed W7 Pro and got a spare fan just in case, but I have not needed to replace it. There are some current manufacturers that are attempting to bring back modular design such as Framework.
Recent Intel CPU's except for the ultra low power series run hot. Non integrated graphics chips run hot. Mac's have ARM processors so they run a lot cooler. As noted above the new Windows Copilot AI PC's use Qualcomm processors which I believe are also ARM. This looks like the beginning of the end of Intel PC's to me. Intel's business plan is to become a foundry and make chips designed by their customers. The "Wintel" PC had a really long run, but sunset is coming.