The stupid & obvious & I-wish-us-idiot-laymen-could-claim-prior-art (not-that-that-helps-anymore) answer is to put a temp sensor on the case too. Just not ther

The stupid & obvious & I-wish-us-idiot-laymen-could-claim-prior-art (not-that-that-helps-anymore) answer is to put a temp sensor on the case too. Just not thermally bridging is a fine stupid answer. But if someone puts their laptop onto a laptop cooling stand, heck yes it would be fantastic to reap a 2x+ benefit. This is, in my view, as much a product choice to make sure Air does not encroach upon better territory as anything else. Companies like Intel & AMD have been way behind comparatively to Apple in mobile chips, but the old-giant competitors at least typically allow a well cooled chip to work better, which, in my view, is a product not technical decision made here: the decision to use less cooling. That said, there is some (I'd wager modest) benefit to using the case as a thermal insulator rather than dissipator for the average user.