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>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.



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


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.


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?


The thermals: https://live.arstechnica.com/apple-october-18-unleashed-even...


Passive airflow and a heatsink?


There's two fans so: not passive.


They claim m1 has 4x less power use when running at full speed, so thermal output will also be 4x less


CPU is completely dwarfed by GPU here.


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.


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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