No matter how you slice it, and defend apple
I do not defend Apple, I
explain what lies behind their design and why its not per se "worse". All designs have advantages and disadvantages. Your X1 does some things better, but it comes with its own disadvantages. Users have to be aware of all this, plain and simple.
Personally, as a user, I would not buy a laptop like the X1 for two very simple reasons. First, I sometimes need to work in cramped environments and have the laptop on my lap, which doesn't work well with a bottom air-intake design (the MBp has a side air intake, which won't be blocked). Second, I do not want a laptop that reaches over 50C on its bottom under load since I have a rather nice desk which I would like to stay this way.
Internally hot temps are not good for electronics and the long term health of a laptop is in question in my opinion. I know many other people disagree and that's fine. You or others should use your own laptops the way you're comfortable, I'm more conservative and prefer cooler temps.
Exactly, what we talk about is
opinions. The fact of it that neither me nor you know what is the exact effect of the temperatures on laptop longevity. What we do know however is a) there are studies that show that complex controller chips are expected to operate at 100C for as long as 10 years — that is assuming continuous 24/7 operation at that temperature, no less — and b) that Apple is confident enough to give you full warranty on these things. There are a lot of people who run these laptops under load — if that would be that detrimental to laptop lifetime, Apple would be ruining themselves with all those free replacement.
Hence, my recommendation for the normal user —
it doesn't matter.
and even the rumored 16" MBP is being developed because apple designed themselves into a corner with such a thin corner they painted themselves in.
Oh come on, we know nothing about that 16". For all we know its just a screen with smaller bezels. I measured it, a 16" display would fit inside the current enclosure. Not to mention that the current design has better thermals than any of their previous MacBook Pros... It's not a Pro desktop where you might want to put a 500W GPU.
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Just wanted to point out, that your i9/Vega 20 had lower 3dmark physics scores than my i7/555x, thus I wouldn't by so certain about that intelligent power distribution since Vega is almost 20% faster than 555x at the same TDP and throttles down to about stock 555x power levels when stressed together with CPU. XPS15 on the other hand maintains max GPU clocks when stressed and thus you get lower CPU clocks like in the notebookcheck review. The difference is, if you don't like such priority, you can change it.
Exactly my point, its about balancing power budget allocation. I don't really think that is that important or interesting since again, nobody uses a laptop like this. It's mostly a rather pointless bragging thing in the end.
I bought the GS65, it is 5% larger footprint and 5% bigger height than MBP, same with weight, not noticeable.
Yes, GS65 has excellent thermals, better than most in the usual bunch. But as previously stated, I don't care for laptops with bottom air intake and I am fine with my performance suffering a bit as a result. Overall usability is more important than absolute performance in my book. The GS65 is great for its purpose though. I just wound't consider it a general purpose business notebook.
They are anything but, Thinkpads are marketed to enterprise and what not.