AnchorDesk Lounge: POLL: Do you care about dual-core PCs?

not worth it if I can't fit it into my laptop

by SantiagoCrespo  - 4/7/05 8:13 PM

In reply to: POLL: Do you care about dual-core PCs? by sbrannon 

And just think about it, I have an HP Pavilion ze4200, which sports a not-so-fast 1.8Ghz Celeron M, with 512 megs of ram, and the processor is currently running at 158 degrees farenheit. If I start Jedi Knight 2, Jedi Outcast, I can only play it for like 10 minutes before the computer turning itself off because of temperature, and Armagetron Advanced (cool game, it's on sourceforge) used to do the same thing until I realised I could perch the computer on top of four pencil erasers for it to have more room to suck air in.
Ok, maybe it is a crappy computer, I'm not saying otherwise, but if a 1.8 celeron freaks out on a game that actually runs on a Pentium III 650, I don't even want to imagine what kind of cooling system a dual-core laptop would need (I'm guessing the four pencil erasers just won't be up to the task).

So I guess i'll have to start reading about portable water-cooling systems and peltier elements ASAP

Just imagine what putting such a computer on your lap would do to a good suit, or a pair of jeans, (or your legs, for that matter)