

Has anyone gotten a hold of the same (and current) chassis from intel to compare? Or is this completely an apples to oranges situation that fanboys are being fanboys about?ġ0*C is indeed massive on laptops and in this case is the difference between throttling and no throttling. (2060 laptops are not high end or anything like high end). In fact, that midrange/normal laptop regime is a completely common area to see cooling systems that try to be more quiet than performance. The design of a high end laptop is often quite differently optimized than the design of midrange/normal laptops.

Wow, so you are saying that a common complaint of the series only exists on a system for which this (wrongly or rightly) addresses? It's almost as if that is direct evidence for that fix being a thing. A lot is the difference between an Apple design that instantly thermal throttles on ramp up to 105C before turning up the fans and a laptop with anything approaching a respectable cooling design. A lot of a laptop is having a design that increases in temp by 30C when you sit it on a soft surface. This is a massive shift in tone without any logical comment when pressed about it In fact, Asus purposefully open the laptop fans on all high end Zephyrus models so that more air can be moved. Fan gets closed off in next revision.Ī 5-10C drop, while sounding big, is pretty darn small actually in the context of laptop cooling issues.ġ0C is a LOT for a laptop - that's the difference between running at 3.7 and 4.1 under load.Īlso fan noise was only on complaint on the Zephyrus M which didn't have any fan blocking. Like perhaps the older Zephyrus designs had a number of customer complaints about fan issues.

Yes proper meshes exist, but stuff like this is almost always a patch job when they find a critical flaw in the system design. Second most likely reasoning would be that restricting the intake reduces the chance some idiot puts their finger or bedding into it. Want to know the 99.999% likely reason? Noise.
