On Fri, Jul 27 2012, thana...@asyr.hopto.org wrote: > on 07/27/2012 10:12 PM Allan Gottlieb wrote the following: >> >> This is a std dell product (it is nvidia mobile device) so I am not >> worried about the heat. It will doubtless shorten battery time, but I >> mostly am plugged in. >> >> allan >> >> > I wouldn't be so sure about it, after I had a bad experience with a > 17-inch Fujitsu Siemens AMILO Xa 1526, which had an NVIDIA GeForce Go > 7600 - 256MB DDR2. Powerfull graphics, but also a *very very* big heat > source. Plus, although the laptop was built in Germany, its airflow > design was totally inadequate to dissipate the heat even when the > graphics card was not working under load. > Under a load it was only a matter of minutes before it would crash.
That is pretty bad. I would have thought fujitsu wouldn't sell a configuration so unstable. I am sure dell can be equally incompetent, but NYU buys a lot from them so I am at least confident that they would take it back. allan
