Thread: Getting towards new laptop time - which brand these days?

Well, to be fair I did have a thought bubble at the end of the first post about a desktop, but I appreciate your post about Metabox - wouldn't have known about them otherwise.

One thing that surprises me not to have read much of in this thread is temperature.
I've been a MMO gamer for a couple of decades and I know that several
mates living in hot places like Texas,Arizona, Queensland and running laptops,
had problems with cooling, or the inadequate cooling of laptops, rather.
To the point of their computer shutting down due to overheating.
I guess this is partly to high demand put on processors by many games,
but then, Australia? Hot much? I'd expect a lappy to slow down at times
once things get up to 35C plus.

Anyway, I prefer my big, fat, desktop machine any day of the week, with
a nice 30" monitor and a good mechanical keyboard. That computer is
like Grandpa's axe, still the same one (ha, ha) that I built some time
in the '90s ... but I'm not entirely sure if there's even one part in there
that is still original. And I'm happy to still run Win7 Ultimate ... no bugging
me with unwanted updates at inconvenient times.
But I know if I need a new mobo/cpu that's going to be a nightmare.
(I have a Win10 box too, but don't use it much, but it's a good fallback
option, like when we had a surge the other day and my power supply
exploded. Literally: big bang, cloud of smoke, the works. Lucky the
rest of the machine survived! Was related to some Transpower stuff-up)

Originally Posted by FenceFurniture

Note that I do ZERO gaming so a Graphics card only has to handle iView etc and some low level Photoshop work.

I've not found that Solitaire has overheated the CPU much, but maybe that's due to the 1017m altitude?