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kalaksiyesterday at 2:19 PM2 repliesview on HN

Laptops are still pretty bulky and power hungry in comparison if you're looking for very SFF and passive cooling.


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joe_mambayesterday at 7:22 PM

You can passively cool a laptop CPU too if that's your jam. Plus, latest RPI 5 cases now feature fans to not thermal throttle :))

kube-systemyesterday at 3:13 PM

Pop open a cheap Celeron N laptop, and often, the motherboard inside is essentially a passively cooled SBC.

https://www.insidemylaptop.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Le...

The big pain with using something like this would mostly be the IO and odd form factor.