Important Safety Note: Do NOT do this with a laptop running Vista.
Y'see, Vista has boatloads of graphical "upgrades" and so the base OS hits your video card harder than anything other than a full-SLI twitch game.
Laptops for years have had all kinds of cooling for the CPU, but since nobody plays high-end games on laptops (unless they get the Area 51-M from Alienware, which is too heavy to hold on your lap anyway), the GPU is left pretty much nekkid.
During Vista's beta phase, people were complaining of actual burns (1st degree) to their legs. Between the heat that comes out of my new machine when all I'm doing is checking my email, and the zone I go into when I'm working particularly hard on something, I'm willing to believe those claims.
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Date: 2007-09-14 05:10 pm (UTC)Important Safety Note: Do NOT do this with a laptop running Vista.
Y'see, Vista has boatloads of graphical "upgrades" and so the base OS hits your video card harder than anything other than a full-SLI twitch game.
Laptops for years have had all kinds of cooling for the CPU, but since nobody plays high-end games on laptops (unless they get the Area 51-M from Alienware, which is too heavy to hold on your lap anyway), the GPU is left pretty much nekkid.
During Vista's beta phase, people were complaining of actual burns (1st degree) to their legs. Between the heat that comes out of my new machine when all I'm doing is checking my email, and the zone I go into when I'm working particularly hard on something, I'm willing to believe those claims.