A vapor chamber is essentially a wider heat pipe. However they do perform better than using multiple heatpipes next to each other with the same amount of space used. Downside is they are more costly of course
Don’t get me wrong, these were just a few ideas on how you could make an second cooling solution for the same laptop with better performance. For the stadard cooling solution a normal heatpipe based cooler would probably be the best solution overall to reach a competitive price point. The second cooling solution would be something you would get for paying additional money. It would be for those who either like a more quiet laptop with better temperatures or for those who like to have some headroom for increasing the TDP.
None of my ideas i mentioned are aimed at reinventing things, they are made with price in mind and are based on competitive laptops that are already on the market. You can however add more premium stuff like a second cooling solution as an optional feature for an upprice. It would kinda be like an optional OLED display that you can get on a lot of laptops. Only rather questionable feature that i would love to see would be the use off upgradable MXM GPUs as long they don’t drive up the price too much.