1.+2. are achievable.
With 3. we have the issue that we need to avoid WiFi chips that require a firmware at runtime. The current ones we use, the Atheros 9k, are the only mPCIe cards we are aware of that can work this way. Do you know others? The good news is that the WiFi sits on a M.2 card so if you are not happy with it you can easily replace the card against something else but then have to manually install the firmware blobs into /lib/firmware - which isn’t a big deal.
- what would be your goal or definition of such goal? Maybe we can get there but I would need to understand what your goal would be? ATM the current L13 and L15 are passively cooled as long as you do not put the CPU/GPU under load. For regular office work and most web browsing the fan stays off and the bottom plate of the case (and handrest) only get a little warm. I never had an issue with the L13 and L15 in this respect so far. If you have issues with this I can recommend:
- run “top” and see if a rogue process is eating CPU resources
- run “powertop” and go to the last page and tweak some or all options to “good” to reduce power consumption
- verify that cpufreq ondemand governer is used to clock down the CPU
Cheers
nicole