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My experience with Dell with their laptop has been the worst at work. Who thought it's a good idea to put a Intel power hungry heat generator in a laptop with

My experience with Dell with their laptop has been the worst at work. Who thought it's a good idea to put a Intel power hungry heat generator in a laptop with no airflow or proper cooling for enterprise product ? I had a coworker that nearly burn his leg when having the laptop on them and coding with Spotify in the background. The thing would thermal throttle like crazy and turn into an helicopter because it has only one 50mm fan to try to cool down the machine... We had to buy stands to help with the airflow because if you put it on a desk it would block the intake. It cost the same price than a MacBook M1 Pro with worse performance, worse thermal and it's so loud. I'll never want a Dell laptop ever again. Also don't get me started on their power delivery circuit that overheat when the laptop is used while charging or the proprietary batteries.

philliphaydon 4y ago
It’s amazing that my ThinkPad x1 extreme with a 7th gen Intel compiles my project faster than my dell XPS 15 with 12th gen cpu. I’m convinced the heat and throttling kills the 12th gen laptops. Apple did the right thing dropping Intel.
paines 4y ago
>I had a coworker that nearly burn his leg when having the laptop on them and coding with Spotify in the background. I wanted to argue: this isn't a laptop, until I remebered how my XPS 15 almost burned off my finger tips, and not only once, but several times. If you pack a gaming gpu into a notebook, guess what will happen: people will use it to play games, and boom: the thing is at a constant ~90°C while doing so... How is a product like this passing any QA and beeing rushed out of the door ?