Decent ones dropped this practice a while ago. Some pull in the sides, some crappy ones use the bottom. My coworker actually got much better performance out of his dell by closing the lid and flipping it over. With it positioned normally it would overheat and throttle the cpu.
Right, Those are the terrible ones. Put it on your lap (which, let’s be honest, is basically the whole point) or a slightly soft surface and it just gets starved of air.
Decent ones dropped this practice a while ago. Some pull in the sides, some crappy ones use the bottom. My coworker actually got much better performance out of his dell by closing the lid and flipping it over. With it positioned normally it would overheat and throttle the cpu.
The vast majority take in from the bottom and blow out the hinge. That’s how you can fit the larger blower fans.
Right, Those are the terrible ones. Put it on your lap (which, let’s be honest, is basically the whole point) or a slightly soft surface and it just gets starved of air.
That’s why they stopped calling them “laptops” for a while, and instead “notebooks”.
But I actually just went and checked Dell, HP, and Lenovo and they do call them laptops again.