Personally I think the idea of a fanless laptop is in most cases stupid: having the option to get a lot more performance from you laptop almost universally justifies having a fan (at a low price lightweight & only moderately bulky cost).
More laptops should have fanless modes, where the processor is power limited & only passive cooling is used. I believe this would be possible on many laptops. Perhaps especially gaming laptops could potentially do very well only on their passive mode while not gaming, since they have such a large focus on cooling, but given the extreme flexibility in specifying power limits for chips that's possible these days, I feel like quite a wide range could have a pretty ok passive cooling performance.
It's be wonderful if there was a good standard review process to better explore laptop noise. That seemingly is the objection to fans, yes? Rather than totalize the ask, allowing different routes to success would imo be preferred.
More laptops should have fanless modes, where the processor is power limited & only passive cooling is used. I believe this would be possible on many laptops. Perhaps especially gaming laptops could potentially do very well only on their passive mode while not gaming, since they have such a large focus on cooling, but given the extreme flexibility in specifying power limits for chips that's possible these days, I feel like quite a wide range could have a pretty ok passive cooling performance.
It's be wonderful if there was a good standard review process to better explore laptop noise. That seemingly is the objection to fans, yes? Rather than totalize the ask, allowing different routes to success would imo be preferred.