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I do agree that Apple Silicon is way, way more energy efficient and comparable to some top desktop x86 chips, but.. From reading different reviews and tests apparently it's normal for the CPU/SoC to reach a temperature of up 100C at full load, with the case being around 45-50C. Do you mean "heatless" as in specifically the outside case temperature - so those x86 laptops heat up the case way more than that?

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As the owner of an M4 Pro and an Intel Ultra 7 laptop, the M4 pro is uncomfortably cold most of the time. The ultra 7 is uncomfortably hot.

The Mac sucks in the winter. The PC sucks in the summer.

The PC is however entirely unusable due to that without plugging an external mouse and keyboard in which is the problem.

My M4 Max under full load for audio transcode required manual fan curve changes to get the temperature down from 110º C (yes, it really got that hot) to 95º C (much better).

It doesn't even get that hot with LLMs running with max fans, where the SoC is about 80º C.

Aside from those use cases, the M4 Max runs 43º C or less even in summer conditions.

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