1.4GHz Athlons were a thing around 2000, almost 20 years ago, and had anything but "small fans" to be cooled. I used to build PCs too, and once I pretty much in

1.4GHz Athlons were a thing around 2000, almost 20 years ago, and had anything but "small fans" to be cooled. I used to build PCs too, and once I pretty much instantly burned up the die of one of those Athlons because I forgot to apply the heat paste. Even with computers that could be run all passively at that time, there is just no comparison to today's smartphones, which sit in our pockets and are orders of magnitude more capable along almost every axis.