I might be pampered on this one by my previous years of working with Surface Pro devices, but I wonder why my Surface Laptop Studio 2 is getting noisy whenever the fan starts due to CPU load gaining about 20% with the device actually heating up significantly already. It's placed on a plane desk, thus air vents aren't blocked in any way. It's placed with its display covering the keys as in second image above. It feels warm, maybe hot, but not like burning hot. There is no dGPU load. RAM load is on average 30% either. But it actually doesn't feel like behaving in compliance with this promotional article. Getting the device to heat up seems to be rather easy. All it takes is running a video stream e.g. using Netflix application. I assume it's because of the Best Performance mode I apparently have to use to reduce most annoying parts of my daily use which is waiting for compilers to rebuild applications I work on. There, limitations in processing power to lower energy consumption seem to be a remarkable bottleneck either. So, if the fan is kept quite when using this "powerhorse" for work that's well done with a much less performant Pro device, too, I don't see the overall benefit of this model, its smart fan control etc. as described here. Don't get me wrong. As of now I'm very satisfied with the device, mostly in terms of the power it is providing over my previous Surface Pro 6 I have been using for years before. But I know devices with better thermal management and less fan noise in situations I'm using it. The fan becomes noisy rather often ... again, even without significant load. Frankly, maybe it's because I don't have much noise at my workplace at all, either, thus even a "whispering" fan becomes remarkable.