Strong mobile CPUs like the Ryzen 5800H are usually in the 45W ballpark while mobile RTX 3080 class GPUs can go as far as 170W+ and that is still half of what the desktop equivalent can draw.

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Don't search for the ASUS G14, the G14 is dead when plug too much power into it. Bold statement, but I've warned you. You need power, your going to hear the fans. There's currently no solution for cooling it quietly.

My desktop PC has a RX5600, which I understand isn't particularly power hungry (nor powerful), but I still consider it a decent GPU. And the card, with its heat sink and fans isn't all that thick and stays reasonably quiet under load, even though I have a 135W CPU next to it. Could probably be even better if the fans were pulling air directly from outside.

At work, we have HP EliteDesk 800 minis, which are fairly slim (for a desktop) too. They usually have desktop i5 and i7s and are fairly quiet and don't seem to throttle. They do get somewhat loud at full load but probably because the heat sink is ridiculously small.

So I'm wondering, why aren't there more thick laptops? I'm not sure a laptop that requires 200+ Watts would last all that long on battery, so I suppose the main use case is an easy to carry, all in one machine, not so much a use-it-all-day-on-the-lap affair. So does thickness come into play that much? Those seem to target a particular audience, so they wouldn't even have to play the thinness marketing game against more popular offerings, they probably wouldn't even be shown next to each other.

I remember my dad used to have a laptop around 2005 in the Athlon XP days which was definitely thicker than my desktop GPU and the HPs and was still fairly usable on the go. I can't believe that a laptop as thick would generate airplane-level noise.

- Laptops have components that are very close together.

- The cooling system is sometimes shared between CPU and GPU.

- The other comment under your comment is also true.

- What is more tick laptops? There are "thick" laptops in the gaming laptop and business -department.

" I'm not sure a laptop that requires 200+ Watts would last all that long on battery,"

- Power/resources can be scaled up and down.

Because the majority of consumers have voted with their wallets for thin, sleek and sexy devices with poor cooling that are loud and thermal throttle.

If you want bulky, well cooled laptops, there are enough to choose from. XMG makes them for example.