I guess that's what active cooling is for. So your legs don't have to take the brunt of it. Anyway, a laptop's power consumption isn't concentrated in one chip.

I guess that's what active cooling is for. So your legs don't have to take the brunt of it. Anyway, a laptop's power consumption isn't concentrated in one chip. So combining the wider area that dissipates heat with the fact that hot spots are actively cooled means a laptop can easily go over the above mentioned 60W for prolonged periods. And power consumption tends to add up from sources that are otherwise not very power hungry themselves (compared to a CPU or GPU). A few W with the LCD, a few with the SSD/HDD, etc.