Fun fact: an external monitor turns on the GPU and all Intel macbooks have terrible thermals even before you turn the GPU on. The new M1 thermals are amazing a

Fun fact: an external monitor turns on the GPU and all Intel macbooks have terrible thermals even before you turn the GPU on. The new M1 thermals are amazing and performance is often the same/better. Caveat: not all M1/M2 macbooks can do 2 external monitors, aggressively verify if this important.