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by rowanG077 2049 days ago
The i9 is not in an Macbook air. It's in a Macbook pro 16 inch which has a completely different design. But you are right that all ultra mobile laptops on the market have way too shitty cooling. You could easily get an additional 10% of performance if the OEM would stop the insane thinness war.
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Interestingly the latest MacBook Pro did get thicker than its predecessor. Not a lot but perhaps they have got to the point where they are thin enough.
The added thickness was attributed to the keyboard changing back to the Scissor mechanism from the Butterfly mechanism that was plagued with issues