| ▲ | progval 4 hours ago | |
How feasible would it be for laptop manufacturers to add a slot in a laptop's underside cover to the CPU's heat pipe, and adjust the heat pipe's shape at this location? This would allow a dock to insert its own heat pipe through it, and dissipate the heat with larger fans and/or larger heat sink. | ||
| ▲ | jpalomaki 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
For Macbook Air there was DIY solutions where people added thermal pads to conduct the heat to the aluminium chassis and then use external cooling on that [1]. Since Air just has passive cooling, this gave major boost for long running tasks. [1] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/guide-macbook-air-heats... | ||
| ▲ | mrheosuper 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
It would risk the user touching the heatpipe during work, which is quite toasty under heavy load. | ||
| ▲ | gambiting 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Not quite the same, but there are laptops with external water cooling that connect to internal piping inside the laptop when placed on the dock: https://videocardz.com/newz/colorful-launches-water-cooled-l... | ||