> I'm sure that the engineers at Apple could have easily found a better solution I think they are pushing the limits of how much heat you can generate in such

> I'm sure that the engineers at Apple could have easily found a better solution I think they are pushing the limits of how much heat you can generate in such a thin laptop and not have it burn your lap. With the mod its already too hot to go on your lap so they probably ruled this out. It would probably require a full re-design to add a heat-pipe over re-organized VRMs. Not something they want to invest in with M1 coming along so maybe intentional there. I think it's also a misconception that big companies with huge amounts of cash can do anything if they want to. The fact that they have a logic board that has been reliable over so many years would create a massive incentive to only change small things at a time. Just look at the cluster fuck caused by just changing the keyboard.