Thermals are fun. Doing video encoding on my Surface Book (i7-6600U) in a 25–35°C ambient temperature, lying its heat source down on a marble floor speeds it up

Thermals are fun. Doing video encoding on my Surface Book (i7-6600U) in a 25–35°C ambient temperature, lying its heat source down on a marble floor speeds it up by 60% within a minute or so. (Remember the Surface Book puts its CPU behind the screen, so it doesn’t transfer much heat through the base. This is in its performance mode, where it can get impressively hot for a 15W CPU, like ow-that-actually-hurts hot. But because that’s not the base, I think they weren’t scared to transfer heat to the body, which is what it sounds like this M1 MacBook Air is avoiding.)