[Tade0]

I don't know about Intel chips, but I have a "gaming" laptop with a Ryzen 4800HS (made with TSMC 7nm) on board that has appropriately oversized heat sinks and with the help of an alternative fan control software I was able to make it run mostly fanless after the fans developed rattle apparently connected with thermal expansion(only start to get noisy when run at low speeds after a gaming session).

With the fan off it sits at 65°C vs 55°C fan on when browsing the web and programming. It only approaches 80°C (threshold at which the fans engage) when viewing Google Maps or gaming.

I suppose I could make it run even colder if I repasted it.

In any case now that Apple isn't using TSMC's entire 5nm capacity anymore we should expect nice, fanless laptops to become more common. Lenovo recently released the X13s, which has the Snapdragon 8cx and glorious 20h+ battery life. The M1 Air is still faster, but some of us refuse to use their hardware and this device fills this niche.