Weren't those MacBooks relatively thin – the same as the OG retinas of 2012-2013?
A friend of mine has an Asus with some Nvidia GPU (3070? not sure), a 5th gen ryzen 9 and a 200+W power brick.
That thing is twice as thick as my 2013 MBP and the case is plastic. It also has more vents than my mbp, each of which has more surface area than all those on the mbp combined. I also suspect the fans are bigger.
He actually bought it to play games on it and never complained about performance dropping after a while. So I suppose it manages to move the 200 W of heat somehow.
Which is where we come to my original post saying "without making people uncomfortable".
I'd guess that under full load that Asus thing (probably ROG series) sounds louder than your vacuum. Just had a look though, even their most powerful G835 [2] that you can get in a variant for ALMOST 9000€ [3](it's 8.400, but wanted to reference the meme) comes with a 5090 "laptop" GPU variant - that's barely half as powerful as the "desktop" 5090 [4].
The charger options are also ... nuts. 330 watts [1] - they're pushing 16 amps through that connector. A tiny amount of dirt, rust or other contamination and you got yourself a nice fire.
A friend of mine has an Asus with some Nvidia GPU (3070? not sure), a 5th gen ryzen 9 and a 200+W power brick.
That thing is twice as thick as my 2013 MBP and the case is plastic. It also has more vents than my mbp, each of which has more surface area than all those on the mbp combined. I also suspect the fans are bigger.
He actually bought it to play games on it and never complained about performance dropping after a while. So I suppose it manages to move the 200 W of heat somehow.