[deccan]

Originally posted by Ragnarok:
My laptop runs perfectly fine. It's an Inspiron 8100 that is about 2 years old. I run it for usually for a couple weeks before I restart. And that isn't due to heat problems, just needs to be restarted to fix a couple issues that would come up and so forth. I've been extreamly happy with it.

You know what REALLY annoys me? My laptop before this was another Compaq Presario, which runs at about 450 MHz or so (I forget what exactly) with 8 Mb video RAM. I sold it to someone here and bought my Presario 2700 a year and a half ago (I wanted a laptop with 32 Mb video RAM), and now the old thing still runs perfectly fine. Right now, it probably even runs faster than mine does most of the time. Sheesh. I think that the new, big graphics chips generate a LOT of heat if you push them by running big 3-D games.