alt Hacker NewsHow feasible would it be for laptop manufacturers to add a slot in a laptop's underside cover to the CPU's heat pipe, and adjust the heat pipe's shape at this location? This would allow a dock to insert its own heat pipe through it, and dissipate the heat with larger fans and/or larger heat sink.
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mrheosuper • today at 7:23 AM
It would risk the user touching the heatpipe during work, which is quite toasty under heavy load.
gambiting • today at 8:02 AM
Not quite the same, but there are laptops with external water cooling that connect to internal piping inside the laptop when placed on the dock:
https://videocardz.com/newz/colorful-launches-water-cooled-l...
For Macbook Air there was DIY solutions where people added thermal pads to conduct the heat to the aluminium chassis and then use external cooling on that [1]. Since Air just has passive cooling, this gave major boost for long running tasks.
[1] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/guide-macbook-air-heats...