James, I now understand that the laptop you require is a GAMING machine. We are going in Circles here. I am only telling you what HP has recommended on these Consumer/Entertainment laptops. If you need to hear it from the HP rep at HP East africa offices in Nairobi get intouch offlist for contacts. Topic closed!! On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 2:29 PM, James Nzomo <kazikubwa@gmail.com> wrote:
@Alvin. "Get a probook if you need that kind of power on HP...you have been warned !!" ProBook? For gaming? You recommend a business laptop that spots mostly HD Graphics 3000 for gaming?
@Kioko. HP and Dell have laptops that you can use like that. HP ProBooks and Dell Inspirons are good examples... cover their ventilation ports and they won't even complain. However, TOP NOTCH models (e.g high end Pavilions and the more advanced Alienwares) sacrifice that kind of convenience to bring you TOP NOTCH GRAPHICS PERFORMANCE (THAT GENERATES ALOT OF HEAT IN THE PROCESS). It doesn't matter what laptop brand it is, if it sports high performance graphics hardware, the laptop will be a furnace and it will require extraordinary cooling and care.
A good example would be those that feature nVIDIA 9600M GT. This card was used on a number of 2009 era Pavilion dvs and MacBook Pros. MacBook Pro Heat Issues with the same card:-
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1922027?start=0&tstart=0 http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=1097679
Pavilion Heat Issues with the same card
http://h30434.www3.hp.com/t5/Notebook-Hardware/dv5-9600-GT-Temperature-figur...
SUMMARY If it has high-end hardware, it will tend to generate heat no matter what the make. Their owners will panic coz of the heat but the heat is well within manageable levels for a high end laptop. The engineers made certain of that. Just avoid interfering with cooling and you will be fine. But recommending that these machines should be powered 3 to 4 hrs a day is nothing but misadvice. NUF SAID. _______________________________________________ Good judgement comes from Experience. Most of that comes from Bad Judgement. _______________________________________________
2011/10/29 Alvin Jason Ochieng <ajochola@gmail.com>
James,
Get a probook if you need that kind of power on HP...you have been warned !!
On 10/29/11, Dennis Kioko <dmbuvi@gmail.com> wrote:
Now, HP and Dell by now should have known that we are likely to use our laptops on bed, or on our laps, and should have come up with a solution to cover for this
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