I'm not sure what the point here is, if you want an actively cooled laptop, just buy that. Just because you personally need something different it doesn't mean that feature isn't important to other people.
> I'm not sure what the point here is, if you want an actively cooled laptop, just buy that. Just because you personally need something different it doesn't mean that feature isn't important to other people.
The person that you're responding to is essentially expressing this exact same sentiment to the person above them? For many of us, fanlessness is irrelevant; in other words, "if you want a passively cooled laptop, just buy that". Hell, I may be an outlier here, but as far as I'm concerned battery life is also irrelevant, and power consumption only matters to the extent that it increases my power bill. I use laptops because they're easy to carry around when closed, not because I'm coding at the top of Mt. Everest or anywhere else that is far from an outlet.
>but as far as I'm concerned battery life is also irrelevant, and power consumption only matters to the extent that it increases my power bill. I use laptops because they're easy to carry around when closed
I'm somewhat in the same boat, but I sometimes use mine when traveling (without being plugged in), but fairly rarely.
However, another thing I really like about having a laptop is that my current one, at least, is very very quiet. Years and years of having a noisy desktop PC with loud fans really made me hate fan noise. With a modern laptop, I can do normal computing tasks and almost never hear the fan (and when I do, it's hard to hear), and I don't have to build some custom, non-portable liquid-cooled machine to get that.
The person that you're responding to is essentially expressing this exact same sentiment to the person above them?
I'm glad you asked. The answer is that no they are not. They are saying 'it might do this'. The person I responded to is saying 'I don't personally want that'. These are two separate things.
If you said 'tell me about this truck' and someone said 'this truck is good for towing boats' and you said 'I don't have a boat', they would say 'you asked and I explained it'. Why are you acting like a news article is trying to sell you personally on something?
The person that you're responding to is essentially expressing this exact same sentiment to the person above them? For many of us, fanlessness is irrelevant; in other words, "if you want a passively cooled laptop, just buy that". Hell, I may be an outlier here, but as far as I'm concerned battery life is also irrelevant, and power consumption only matters to the extent that it increases my power bill. I use laptops because they're easy to carry around when closed, not because I'm coding at the top of Mt. Everest or anywhere else that is far from an outlet.