@theRepublic: I wasn't only meaning thickness, but that's pretty much the only way to add mass without changing the qualities of the alloy itself.
You need to have a certain heat resistance in order for the heat to store into the matter to transfer it elsewhere in the matter, that's why the base of the heatsink is so thick instead of being foil that would have a lot smaller heat resistance. Bigger mass makes it possible to transfer bigger amounts of energy. Of course, the bigger heat reserve of bigger mass makes it less efficient for the heat to transfer from the processor to heatsink.
I'm starting to have a feeling that we aren't disagreeing, we just look at the same thing from different perspective.
In mass production all the design work starts from the cost efficiency standpoint (of course, it wouldn't make much sense to design something useless just because it's cheaper). The more mass you are going to use, the more expensive your product will be, but the matter you use must be suitable for the purpose. It wouldn't make sense to make an heat exchanger out of plastic because it's cheaper and on the other side of things, making the heat exchanger out of diamonds doesn't make sense because of the high cost.
If you can save ten cents on a product that is sold a million copies, you've saved a designers 1-1,5 years expenses.
Btw. How much more efficient, than the current, the heatsink should be by your judgement?
@Lightbleeder: I don't see that it would be impossible for Nintendo implement. Basically all that would need to be emulated would be controller and memory card. But as long as the controller ports and memory card slots are there, there's not that much sense in emulating.
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Eikä Japanisti.
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Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
