Except for, say, the MacBook Air, which has no moving parts, even the best laptops you can buy can get pretty noisy, especially over time. But why are these even noisy in the first place? After all, big desktop systems have many large fans, as do current generation gaming consoles like the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X, yet these devices are relatively quiet. The answer, as it turns out, comes down to heat dissipation. There a decent amount to unpack here, but the issue comes from multiple...
