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Is Surface Laptop using active cooling? It is pretty well known that MacBook Air sustained performance is limited due to thermals.

People have been doing mods which transfer the heat to the frame. This gives big performance boost at the expense of hot computer on your lap.

The laptops with the new Snapdragon chips that folks have gotten actual hands on do use active cooling.

Yes, and fan is both loud and regularly running

Surprising that it gets such good battery life with a fan running all the time.

At least on the surface laptop 2 in my last role, I didn’t find the battery life to be all that great. Wasn’t terrible, just average