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