So I bought a sh laptop (Acer Aspire 3 N19C1, manufactured 12/2019) for 200€ with i5 10210U, 512GB Intel SSD NVMe and 8GB RAM. Pretty good deal, imo.
I opened it up, because I'm a geek and wanted to replace the factory thermal paste.
What is that below the copper, on the left?
The cooper and metal cooling plate is floating over the left cooling surface without touching it. I never saw that before and I've opened quite few laptops.
LOL Acer, I suppose?
I "solved" it by putting a 0.5mm thermal pad on it the left cooling area, so that it would touch the copper arm.
I still think this is a misconstruction by Acer.