I nearly melted my laptop so you don’t have to — after testing cooling pads for chilling your laptop during a heatwave, I’ve got serious data to drop on the coolest and quietest products you can buy
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Thermal headroom is becoming a first-order constraint as AI workloads hit consumer laptops during heatwaves. If your product assumes ‘run the model locally,’ you now own a thermal and acoustics experience problem, not just a UX problem.
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