i'm looking at it and I'm pretty sure I could easily accept this thing being about twice as thick and 0.5kg heavier. If I ever retire this I'm finding one that has real cooling, if any still exist.
You could buy a 2 kg laptop with a 45 W CPU, but then it'd barely be portable and after a few years the battery will last half an hour, what's the point.
What you want to know is called the thermal design power: TDP, and you can look up the data sheet for the CPU in the laptop to know what it is. 15-22 W is typical, 30-45 W what you find in "workstation" laptops and small desktops, 60-120 W in desktops.
I remember some of the T H I C C laptops of the early 00s, and I remember why people pushed for thinner and lighter - but I agree, I actually wouldn't mind them getting thicker again for better battery life or better cooling or whatever, the Air style of thin laptops are kind of a silly default marketing strategy in an era where everything's already pretty thin.
I think the problem is less instruction set and more Intel enforcing a decade of cpu stagnation. Recent AMD apu's are pretty incredible for what they can do
I got a new laptop literally in january of this year and the fucking cheap ass plastic on the hinges is disintegrating after less than a year of totally normal use.
It's a cheap notebook, so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, but what the fuck, is it really that hard to design a cheap laptop in a way such that the thing doesn't spontaneously fall apart?
No way! I'm dealing with the same laptop right now and about 2 days ago Windows decided to start updating itself, freezing itself in the process and causing a bootloop. Long story short, hilarity ensued when I realized you can't even use System Restore or CMD without entering your MS account password. Then I found out it's a common error for the servers not being able to authenticate your password, locking you out of repairs. Eventually I got there using a boot disk but I get absolutely esoteric errors.
there's a few different versions of that laptop. if you can post your exact model number from the tag on the bottom i can walk you through cleaning it and help you figure out if there's anything that can be upgraded.
those spin convertibles have pretty weak cooling like all laptops do, so a lot of the time just opening the sucker up and cleaning out all the cat hair and foot skin does wonders.
i'm sure someone else has already asked about software stuff, but are you on windows 10 or 11?