17" Unibody under Vista64.. I was told it would be hot but... WOW!

[w00t951]

Anuba seems to have come from an age where 64 bytes is a lot of RAM... No, nowadays, the laptops are as powerful as desktops or surpassing them... Take my HP Pavilion Elite for example. I spent a ridiculous amount of money and bought an Antec 500W power supply and dual NVIDIA 8800 GTX card, but then in the space of one year, my new Macbook Pro managed to surpass it in everything except for the processor work, because the desktop is a quad-core and my Mac is a dual core, but the clock speed on my Mac is much faster than the 2.44 GhZ on the HP... Time to sell the thing, i haven't touched it since I bought my Mac.

 

[ViciousShadow21]

Anuba seems to have come from an age where 64 bytes is a lot of RAM... No, nowadays, the laptops are as powerful as desktops or surpassing them... Take my HP Pavilion Elite for example. I spent a ridiculous amount of money and bought an Antec 500W power supply and dual NVIDIA 8800 GTX card, but then in the space of one year, my new Macbook Pro managed to surpass it in everything except for the processor work, because the desktop is a quad-core and my Mac is a dual core, but the clock speed on my Mac is much faster than the 2.44 GhZ on the HP... Time to sell the thing, i haven't touched it since I bought my Mac.

get rid of that PC trash!! no i mean if you havent used it you should definitely sell it

 

[Anuba]

Anuba seems to have come from an age where 64 bytes is a lot of RAM...

64 bytes was never a lot of RAM, not even in the 1950's.
I did get into computers back when 64 kilobytes was quite a lot of RAM, though.

No laptop has ever run circles around the cutting edge desktop machine of any given day and age. They're always lagging one step behind due to the inherent bottlenecks and limitations that come with compact size. The closest they ever got was with Intel's Centrino breakthrough back in the early 2000's (the grandfather of the CoreDuo family). The Centrino shuffled data a lot more effectively than the Pentium 4 did. But once Intel started building desktop processors based on Centrino/Pentium M technology, desktops blew laptops away again.

There are plenty of laptops that are adequate for gaming, but there's no getting around the amount of heat generated by running a new game at a high framerate and resolution. You can't have the cake and eat it. If you want to play games and still keep the computer lukewarm, get a desktop. If you want to play games on a razor thin laptop, you'll have to accept the fact that you can fry eggs on it. If you want neither a desktop nor a hot computer, but still want to play cutting edge games, get a bulky laptop that's built to handle that kind of heat.

 

[pyromaniaque]

64 bytes was never a lot of RAM, not even in the 1950's.
I did get into computers back when 64 kilobytes was quite a lot of RAM, though.

No laptop has ever run circles around the cutting edge desktop machine of any given day and age. They're always lagging one step behind due to the inherent bottlenecks and limitations that come with compact size. The closest they ever got was with Intel's Centrino breakthrough back in the early 2000's (the grandfather of the CoreDuo family). The Centrino shuffled data a lot more effectively than the Pentium 4 did. But once Intel started building desktop processors based on Centrino/Pentium M technology, desktops blew laptops away again.

There are plenty of laptops that are adequate for gaming, but there's no getting around the amount of heat generated by running a new game at a high framerate and resolution. You can't have the cake and eat it. If you want to play games and still keep the computer lukewarm, get a desktop. If you want to play games on a razor thin laptop, you'll have to accept the fact that you can fry eggs on it. If you want neither a desktop nor a hot computer, but still want to play cutting edge games, get a bulky laptop that's built to handle that kind of heat.

Holy shittlebums! Can we say BURN!!!!!!