Not to mention the power supplies with many laptops don't even provide enough watts to power the system at max load (including macbooks pros). They just use the

Not to mention the power supplies with many laptops don't even provide enough watts to power the system at max load (including macbooks pros). They just use the battery to provide bursts at full speed. Generally that's good enough for a lot of uses. Gaming laptops do try and provide enough power and thermals to run full tilt. For work I chose an Alienware m15 because of this, and I wanted fast over thinnest. The m15's offer an i9 and probably could run one near full thermal load. In my case a desktop wouldn't do since I need to move around (doing IoT stuff, so I goto different parts of the lab). But, I do miss the macbook pro build quality. The first m15 died, and the replacement has a dead pixel.