Because, to cool passively, they need huge heatsinks.
Real passive machines are in 15W limit, but commodity x86 are 25W and more.
Military notebooks are passive, but they used all their case as huge heatsink.
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Because, to cool passively, they need huge heatsinks.
Real passive machines are in 15W limit, but commodity x86 are 25W and more.
Military notebooks are passive, but they used all their case as huge heatsink.