[swagatkonchada]

I have never had heating problems with a mac since I started using the M1 model(around 2021), with a typical software engineer workload.

I highly doubt M3 macs are any worse.

[sgarland]

Same. In comparison, my last job I joined right when the last of the Intel Macs were going away, so my work machine was a fully loaded 16” i9 MBP. Aside from being enormous, and having the battery life of a gaming laptop, it would get absurdly hot unless I disabled Turbo. While the heat wasn’t a physical problem when docked, it would spin the fans up, and sometimes I don’t want headphones on.

I don’t know who thought shoving an i9 into a laptop designed to be sleek and quiet was a good idea, but they were mistaken.

Oh, also, my base (8 GB RAM, 256 GB SSD) M1 Air destroyed the i9 in actual workloads.

[cedws]

Me neither. I've rarely felt my M1/M2 laptops getting hot. On the other hand, Windows laptops like my Intel i7 XPS would get hot just from booting.

[nottorp]

> with a typical software engineer workload.

So yours are probably MBPros not Airs. Those have a fan.