<![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop? - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop? - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Flippin hot. A105-S4384 Toshiba Satelite. I'm talking barbeque your juevos, sunnyside up, or scrambled. Any way you want 'em. If you grab the power adapter it defies the Kelvin scale with its heat. I just can't get over how hot it gets. I bought a USB cooler with twin fans that I use underneath it, and it does help. So here are my actual temps, because yes.I've gotten all scientific on this bad boy because when things are this hot.you just get the temp checker out because you're in awe. (I even wrote my first temp checker app in VB.NET because I wanted it to start alerting me when it hit certain temps. Yeah I know there are programs out there, but I had fun writing it). Record High - 86 F. Average - 75-80 F. Record Low - 50 F. I've had my laptop for 1.5 years. Love the laptop. Hate the heat.

ZalmanRubis

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My Macbook Pro runs at 95 degrees which is 207 fahrenheit, I even have a few screen shots, needless to say I can't ever leave the damn thing on over night and it's going in to hopefully be repaired or replaced. Haha don't ever get a Macbook Pro and this is coming from someone who loves Apple so much that she even got the tattoo!

452

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Hi

I've got Toshiba Satellite A100-192, It's almost 2 years old. In 2006 I ended up in hospital with few black marks on my skin all over my legs. [it's 2GHz Yonah with X1600 radeon] I was playing something for couple of hours with my notebook on my legs [i was wearing pants! - tho very thin].

It's freaking hot! Now I've got a Zahlman NB cooler and it is fine.

Krystian Sz.

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I have a Lenovo 3000 N100. The Core 2 Duo doesn't get very hot, unless I cover up the vents, which is stupid, anyways. I have no real accurate way to tell the temp in degrees.

Tip: That PC-card blank. You know how it's warm when you pull it out? It's blocking another place for heat to escape.

SkyHawkMkIV

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> @infearandfaith:
"Shit burns the shit out of shit"

...Wow. Your parents gotta be proud.

MeNotYou

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Toshiba p105-9312... Shit burns the shit out of shit. i don't have an exact temperature but I can tell you it gets to the 100+ degree fahrenheit range.

I actually have a palm print burned into the bottom left of my keyboard from where I rested it while playing CS: Source.

infearandfaith

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> 1 week old Dell 1720 @ a very comfortable 29 Celsius. Replaces my old Dell E1705 which not only crisped my legs, but had the added joy of electrocution to boot. Ahh Dell...

twreckx

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Wow... you all have cold laptops... my piece of shit Dell XPS M1210 runs a consistent CPU temp of 137F and commonly approaches 160F. The fan even runs full speed when i am sleeping and the laptop is on a desk...

i fucking hate my dell xps m1210 and michael dell can suck me...

rreese

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Dell D600, running at 118f, number? you want numbers?

corhou99

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> @crinknirc: Isn't the 8000 and 9000 series known for being scorchingly hot and having an overheating problem?

linoth

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> HP Pavilion ze4941us. 1.3 GHz Celeron M, 60 GB hd. SpeedFan will report the CPU at 60-62 degrees centigrade with the hard drive varying from 48-52 degrees, depending on access. Halfway through the nightly virus scan, it's at 50 and holding. An IR thermometer in the vicinity of the processor reports 39.2 centigrade, and in the center of the laptop 40.4.

linoth

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> HP Pavilion zd8000 = 119 F*

*as measured by digital oven thermometer

crinknirc

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I have a 2 GHz MBP CD (almost two years old) and my enclosure bottom is 97F according to iStat.

Rosy720

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Bought my MacBook in June.. using the miniStat widget that someone else posted. Right now Firefox, iTunes, iCal are open and the processor temp is at 145 F. Opened Photoshop and it jumped up to 151.

Usually have to have something between my lap/my MacBook when it's not on my desk.. otherwise it will seriously burn, haha.

jhuang

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My Eee CPU, sadly, hits around 61 degrees CELCIUS, while clocked at 630MHz. It hovers around 50-55 when I have it on a solid surface, but on my lap/couch/bed/whatever, it'll shoot up to 61 degrees. That's pretty damned hot. 140 Farenheit or so.

No idea if this is normal or not. I got one of the first batch of Eees. Also, it *could* be the temp sensor, but the bottom of the laptop is very warm/hot to the touch.

Brenny

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Macbook Pros tend to heat up more than other laptops primarily because their casing is made of aluminum, which is one of the best elements for heat conductivity.

kodo

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My new MBA with SSD is cold to touch when surfing the web. That's right, not lukewarm, but actually less than body temp, and completely silent. After my 10 pound Dell Inspiron 8200 scorcher, my jewels are rejoicing. You can bitch at me all you want about MBA's compromises, but it's the perfect machine for my needs.

QuailRider

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My 1.83Ghz MacBook runs ~mid 80's F on the right side of the bottom surface, but the left side ranges from 100 F to 105 F.

peteyx

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My ex-Dell Inspiron 5150 ran about uncomfortably-hot hot-tub temperature (hence the couple class action suits), so I'm guessing maybe 115+°F at the case bottom? Hot enough to melt the feet off the bottom. And that was with the fan spooled up to Rolls Royce Pegasus Engine speed and sound levels. The replacement Dell Inspiron 1520 runs like an ice cube, but also runs Vista glacially slow, and came with no tech support and no warranty, and no say in configuration since it replaced the old one (thanks for being there for me Dell!). I would rather have the hot old one...

twalker920

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Actual date people!

HP - old and at home - 101 ferenheit when I measured it 3 weeks ago. thought it's not a good test because I was using it some.

I'll re-test it at 10 minutes idle and then I'll test it at 10 minutes under load as well so you can have a comparison.

Magiksreal

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I actually process claims for notebook repairs for Futureshop/Bestbuy and when the store rep calls in and says its a Toshiba A series I start typing overheating and shutting down. Mainly the A70's. They actually have a desktop chip in them. I have pictures of half a laptop completely warped from overheating

inkedfusion

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My dell xps gen2 reaches 153CPU and 171+GPU (Both Temps in F) while playing TF2 or BF2 (or any 3D game for that matter). I use I8kfanGUI version 3.1 to measure temps. I have had to have 2 6800 Ultras replaced in this thing in the past 2.5 years.

Surface temp may be much lower, however to the touch the area above the KB (where the heatpipe runs for teh GPU) is wickedly hot to the touch.

Hope this helps your data.

TenaciousC

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> @lafond66: Buy me a thermal probe so I can use it for 30 seconds to record a temperature for a gadget blog and sure you'll get the "bottom of the laptop temperature." Otherwise, they're gonna have to deal with what the temperature monitoring software tells me. I'm sure they're big boys and can extrapolate the information they need.

DashTheHand

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> my laptop is so hot - that it was stolen from a 10-year old girl while she was doing research on a cure for the disease her grandma has caught_

Oh wait - you meant temperature wise_ Oops_

uberfu

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I'm glad most people here can read that the temp was for the bottom of the laptop, not the CPU temp.....

Y2KGTP

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Sager 9860, 17" little beast, could´ve gotten a mac instead but never thought of it until i started reading the specs and greatness of apple computers...
i believe, not home right now, jsut slacking off in the office, bt i think its around 47ºC
it can burn sometimes =P

vinchbr

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Back in may I bought an HP dv6000z (AMD 1.8 Athlon X2) and whenever I did anything more strenuous to the vid card than surfing the web or doing word processing the bottom area right above the family jewels would heat up to lava hot temperatures. I eventually stuck a thermometer under there to see just how low my sperm count was and on 3 occasions it broke 100 degrees F and once hit 102. Eventually this caused the mainboard to fail and I ripped HP off for a totally new laptop (dv6500t Intel Centrino Duo 2.0) and I've never had it get over 70 degrees. My nads and wife thank me ;)

wbemus

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I've got a 2.4GHz 17" Macbook Pro and a 1.6GHz Macbook Air. The hottest I see either one get is with ripping/encoding with Handbrake (USB drive for Air). The Pro runs in the low 70s, the Air in the low 80s. For surfing/idling it's more like 50 for the Pro and 55 for the Air.

KDawg69

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I don't know the exact temperature, but my HP 2615 runs hot enough that my palm has been permanently burned into the area below WASD. I can't use it on my lap without an extra layer of clothing, on top of my usual jeans. :)

immortal2030

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Acer 5593, 1 year old.

Lowest temp = 76 Celcius

Peak temp = 105 Celcius and then overheat :(

nuuneoi

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I have a 15" Macbook Pro and I have seen it get as high as about 190 F while doing something fairly intensive such as running a video game or virtual machine.

kingbob337

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I have an ugly DELL inspiron 1520 with an 8600M GT (the only reason I got it).
It works perfectly, although the display keeps zooming (like zoooooooooooooooooooom) if brightness is not at maximum. Dell told me that all Insp 1520 are like that so they won't replace it...
It is my first, and definitely my last DELL. I had a Toshiba with a T7400 2.1 C2D, and a geforce 7600 (the only reason I replaced it).
My business laptop is a 17" HP Compaq 6820s. It's ok. I got it few days ago...
The next one is going to be a Toshiba or a MSI or a VAIO with a 9600M GT...

ProSeven

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I have been using Apple portable computers since 17" Powerbook G4 came out a few years back. There is a urban legend that says that continuous use of a portable on your lap could hurt your chances of having kids. Well, 4 Apple portables later (17" PB G4, 12" PB G4, MBP CD, MB C2D) I am having my second child... and both times it didn't take very long to conceive once we made the decision. MB C2D registered 95.6 degrees F.

bkitchman

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> mbp 15" g4 . It would get up to 65C but I use g4 fan control and have the temperatures on all the sensors set to 45C so it stays reasonable.

Arza

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> MBP 15", one yr old. 2.33 C2D with the radion XT 1600 256MB vram. istat pro tells me that my cpu temp hit's 72 degrees C which is hotter than yer moms. The case temp on the bottom has read as high as 57 C which will turn my thighs a lobster red after a half hour of gaming or so. However, I would probably walk to the store in a pink bunny suit for a Klondike bar, but i will kill for a MBP... seriously, you see me coming towards the shelf in the mac store and there's only one left, you best turn around.

enerdream

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> @Drvec: Actually, a few accurate measurements I see! perhaps this will work.

Drvec

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> @Jesus Diaz: Perhaps this idea was a bit ill-concieved as I think very few people will have a way of measuring the surface temperature of their lappies. Anyway, I went home and measured the peak underside temp with a laser non-contact thermometer (I think I saw one other commenter also). So here it is: Sony Vaio SZ691N/X 2.4GHz dualcore 4GB RAM 200GB 7k2 HDD: max temp 40.2 deg Celsius. That was the highest I coupld get and is only just above body temp.

Drvec

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Jesus,

Tufte tastes on a Darrell Huff budget.

Still, nice to know somebody still cares to care.

HKLV

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> ASUS W3J - pretty good with heat most of the time. My CPU temperature readings hover around 65 degrees Celsius under a medium load in Vista (10-12 windows with mixed Word documents, PDFs, Firefox, Media Player, etc.). Under gaming conditions it climbs a bit, but it's never scorching. Ambient temps are lower, too, so it's pretty nice.

I definitely don't want to keep it on my lap for five hours, though - the heat, while never overwhelming, definitely makes for some unpleasant groin sweat. Yep, groin sweat - that terrible foe.

Daliminator

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Laptop: MacBook Pro C2D 2.16GHz
Age: About one year.
Using CoolBook to keep voltage down and CPU throttled
Temps:
CPU: 51°C
GPU: 45°C
Bottom enclosure: 29°C

This is with CoolBook, iTunes, Firefox, Adium and Azureus running. (Man, I hate Azureus, I want uTorrent for Mac, now!)

petterekman

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> MacBook. 76F. granted that is on a glass table. it may go up to 80f but thats when its really cranking.

j4sk868

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I failed to mention that I have an HP dv2000.

ovil200

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My laptop is currently running at 32 Centigrade.

According to SpeedFan.

ovil200

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> These responses will also provide important 'data' about the average Gizmodo reader/commenter's laptop preference.

gelatinous

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I have the first generation Macbook with the 1.83ghz intel and in Vista its at about 68 C when sitting idle with my antec cooler underneath it. i would never put this thing on my bare legs unless of course i didnt want hair on them

mb411

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Brand: Apple
Model: Macbook Pro (2007)
Temperature: 92 degrees F (Enclosure bottom according to iStat Pro)

Yes, that's more heat than I'd like and that's without any games running.

vagrant

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I'm actually using my macbook pro to cook bacon right now.

mullingitover

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> vaio p series by the way, my bad.

nuance

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> on my bed(possibly pants) my thermometer shows 116

nuance

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I have a Dell Inspiron XPS gaming laptop that got really noisy and they fans would run all the time and at Lake Tahoe at 6500 feet altitude the air was too thin to keep it cool and the video performance would go to hell on games.

Then I opened it up and removed the quarter-inch mat of cat hair between the fans and the heat-sinks :P

Now it's like a whole new laptop!

Z.

Zoot

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I don't know how I would get an accurate measurement of the actual temp, but figuring average body temp in the 95 degree range- Most of the time my MacBook with it's 2Ghz Intel Core Duo is just fine (meaning cooler than me). Sometimes it's so hot I have to remove it from my lap or put something between me an my thigh. My late 2001 iBook never even got warm. This MacBook's fan is noisy as hell when it kicks in, luckily that isn't often, but it does seem like the Intel processors create the heat.

No balls to burn though. Even if I did, it's usually sitting on my thigh, not my lap. The heat comes from the back, near the hinge. The front doesn't get close enough to my tender parts to matter.

rsquared

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Dell 1501 one year old (Processor: AMD Turion 64 X2 (dual core) TL50 (1.6GHz, 256K), RAM: 1024MB (2x512) 533MHz DDR2 SDRAM, Hard Drive: 120 GB SATA 5400rpm, CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD: 8 x DVD+/-RW). No temperature sensor at the bottom but do not feel it hot (it mean max 30 C to me). Other temp. sensors after at least 10 days nonstop work (used as desktop atm because desktop pc crashed. Use it for net, a little photoshop, and some prepress): HDD: 46 C; CPU Core 1: 51 C; CPU Core 2: 50; CPU overall: 52 C. Temperatures taken from Everest Ultimate Edition 4.20.

perrobg

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My Inspiron gets hot enough to make scrambled eggs on it. Any regular human skin will turn into bbq thanks to the complicated built-in electric heating system.

ninjatales

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> my eee pc's cpu reaches about 70~75 when overclocked to 1 Mghz. however, the bottom isn't actually that hot.

parcaelum

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Lenovo IBM Thinkpad Z61m - ~100 F at base.
It's really not that hot at all, yes it is on my abdomen while I lay down, and I don't really have much of an issue with the heat. It's enough to warm me up, but not enough to burn me.

Dygear

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I don't have a good measure to determine the heat at my lap but it's friggin' hot even when not much is occurring on the machine.

Specs: Macbook Pro Core Duo 2.16ghz
All the standard stuff, only change is replacement of the HD.

I have a Speck case on it and that has enabled me to keep it on my lap most of the time but it is still very warm.

r.andom

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My MacBook Pro (2.4GHz, 4GB RAM, NVidia 8600M GT), when running any CPU-intensive task, i.e. Photoshop or World of Warcraft, gets up to a good 120 degrees Fahrenheit. It's almost impossible to use it in your lap for more than 10 minutes at a time - I've gotten literally burned by the thing before.

Melenor

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> On my 1st Gen MacBook I'm getting a readout of 35C (95F) on the "Enclosure Bottom" gauge.

Blaze6181

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I'm writing this on an old Tecra M2 that's running Ubuntu, and it gets pretty hot. Because of that, I keep it on one of those heat pipe laptop coolers, which really is just a method of keeping it up and keep the air flowing underneath.

But, I also have a Thinkpad T60p and it's stupidly NOT warm. I can keep it in my lap and it's never warm; I almost think it's not doing anything. These Thinkpads are stupid good in terms of engineering, and look quite good to boot. Macbook what?

fuzzycuffs

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I think my old MBP 2.16 suck, it is so hot when rendering , that i can fry eggs on it... and at those time's the speed is 50 % reduced.

cabowah

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My Macbook Pro (2.33 GHz) can rest comfortably on my lap when I'm just surfing the web or typing notes in a class or something, but when I get into photoshop rendering I have to spread my legs a bit (I'm male. thank you.) so as not to touch the area under the CPU. When I play UT3 in windows with graphics as high as I can get them, my CPU core temp goes over 95C and my case bottom gets well over 110 F and will burn me if I'm stupid enough to leave it on my lap

I used to be really afraid of my laptop's thermal issues, them I took out the motherboard and reapplied thermal paste to the CPU, GPU, and Northbridge(?) and saw about a 20C drop in normal usage and shutdown under intensive gaming.

BOINC distributed computing projects turn it into a nice space heater in the winter though.

BenjaminD

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> ive seen macbook pros get up to 180 degrees

BobbyMills

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Well i have been using my laptop since 4 PM and its not even warm is pretty cool :P God bless the holy power of the fans

Mike918

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> @lafond66: Well, most people here don't have IR temp readers or other instruments to measure case temp, so they're doing the next best thing. Sorry if that offends you. Either way - it's interesting data.

Stang70Fastback

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Fujitsi Siemens Amilo M1245.
Relatively older laptop. But top specs for its time.. Does the job for me .. Need a new one.
Centrino 1.8 80Gig 1GB Ram ati 9700 128 dedicated (the thing that really heats up)
I have a readout of my HDD 70F (room temp) and processor 78F(heats up with games).
The laptop gets really hard.. if i play some intense 3D game.. HL2 maybe. ya

I got a laptop chill pad to use on the couch or bed.. on the table its alright.

XneoX

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> hp zt3000, if the fan gets blocked for over a minute it overheats and shuts down... but ever since the battery stopped lasting even 5 minutes without the cord its seemed to cool down quite a bit; no longer can I flash fry a large mammal on the bottom of my puter

eatmonkeygood

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> MacBook, 2Ghz IC2D, 2GB (about a year old now). Most of the time, it's on my desk, and when I do use it on the bed or wherever, it's on batt power and the temperature goes lower. Although in normal cases, the bottom enclosure is about 31C. Prolly gets hotter when I'm playing on Windows.

forgottendiary

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Go with MBA and never look back!!!

Gawkest

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Asus G1S-A1 80C Max under max load.

Average when just doing net browsing and etc is approximate 60C. But its a gaming laptop, so its under pretty heavy load most of the time.

DashTheHand

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My Asus A8JS gets to be fairly warm, but even if I play games it's not hot enough to burn me. Maybe as warm as the outside of a hot water bottle. I don't have a digital thermometer or a stress test designed to heat it up, sorry.

Under normal usage it's barely warmer than when it's turned off, sometimes not even heating up past the cold it picks up while in my bag, but that's Linux, so I wouldn't expect much heat.

mhlaxp

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Oops, that would be a Centrino Duo and 160*F.

Joetimek

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I have a MacBook Pro and the thing is painfully hot. My old 1GHz Aluminium PowerBook G4 was better, but still hot.

My girlfriend's MacBook Air is warm, but it could be against bare skin (like legs).

My mum's MacBook is roughly the same. Warm but fully manageable.

If you want it against your skin at any time, stay the hell away from a MacBook Pro. I love the thing, but it's like the machine that melts off Will Smith's fingerprints in MIB.

KitGrose

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My Laptop (Gateway C-140X the convertible one) averages around 140F But can get as high as 205F due to my overheating problem =(

DrNick664

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Inspiron E1705 (9400), 17"
1.73 GHz
2 GB of Ram

About 106*F when running Firefox, Winamp, an AIM. Hot as bloody hell. That's what they get when they put the fan outlets on the bottom where my legs are supposed to be (I think the one for the graphics card is busted). What didn't they get when they were making this LAPtop?

I do have to say it's great when I'm outside and its chilly. Wouldn't be great for porn, I'm sure. Heats parts that don't need heating.

Joetimek

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> if iStat is correct?

Hottest ever: 87.5 Degrees Celsius (for more than 15 minutes in SUMMER!)
Coolest: 44 ( on average)

This is CPU A data from iStat Pro, i dunno how accurate that may be, but it really felt like it could BURN something. Plus, my MBP 15.2 2.4Ghz is always sitting on a laptop fan cooler.

leeks

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I have a Dell M1210 and I can actually use it on my lap! Warm but nowhere near hot.
It also fits in a Menella envelope and is as fast as a MBP.

fastm3driver

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Dell Latitude D500, 75 deg F

5 year old workhorse, not top dollar, or top performer, but worth every penny.

Bachblast

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My IBM T30 stays at a firebreathing 55 degrees Celsius at the bottom while the CPU manages to scorch out a 62 degrees Celsius heatwave.

Gotta love Pentium 4-M.

einstoch

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I don't have an accurate way of testing the temperature of the bottom of my toshiba satellite, but I know it can be uncomfortable on my bare skin. I usually put some sort of fabric between me and it.

... I thought my wife and I were the only ones that use their laptop on the potty :)

HyperDrunk

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My Latitude D620 is a comfortable hand-warmer.

SeraSera

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I've got a Sony Vaio FE770G Notebook, 15". Ain't that sexy now, but was pretty nice at it's time (only about 2 years ago). Temperature? No idea how to get the exact temp, but it's warm, a nice warm, the one that makes you feel cozy during the cold Winter. Ah....

jaymac

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Me: Toshiba Satellite A105 s101 (ancient, I know)
celeron 1.60ghz
ram 1.3g

average: too damn hot! What idiot puts the vents on the BOTTOM of a LAPTOP! I want to toss it out the window!

TonyTriple

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> IBM T60 (1.83 duo) is 105.2 degrees Fahrenheit on the bottom that has been running all day. I have a Infra-red temg guage for my Nitro RC cars sitting here :)

Y2KGTP

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> people really don't understand the concepts here. All they want is your model, and your actual temperature of the bottom of your laptop. So many tools have posted their CPU temps or "warmish" it's ridiculous. I guess giz is filled with morons.

lafond66

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> PowerBook G4 1.25 gets warmish along the bezel between the F-keys and the display hinge, but I keep it perched on my desk (on a MacMice iPerch) with a Vornado Zippi fan pointed at it, blowing from a foot to the left. The Zippi is quieter than the annoying internal fans.

earthsaver

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> MBP... 104 on enclosure bottom.. CPU 139 F.

My old Dell used to get so hot it would turn itself off everytime it was unplugged. Plugged in I would have to leave it partially hanging off the desk to keep it cool enough to work.

CraziestGadgets.com

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> HP DV2700t

Power save mode CPU vent on bottom ~85F
Hard drive directly under the right palm rest ~95F
RAM Flap approximately bottom middle ~90F
Rest of laptop ~80F

Speedfan reports
HD0: 111F
Temp1: 104F
Temp2: 113F
Core0: 72F
Core1: 81F
No idea what Temp1/2 are hopefully not my GPU gone wild. But overall the readings seem a little off.

Measured with non contact thermometer in room approximately 68F.

awdark

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> 15" MB Pro. The bottom enclosure will break 110º if I'm running anything in cpu-intensive (VMWare) for long enough. Sitting at a toasty 95º now with about 6 apps open and my office is freezing.

enki

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> @aec007:

heh, read the article too fast and didn't catch that, my bad.

I think most people presume that Jesus was asking for CPU temperature, since there isn't really any convenient way of measuring the temperature of the bottom of the laptop (yeah, I'm gonna go and hold a thermometer to the bottom of my laptop for a couple minutes and hope that it reaches thermal equilibrium.)

gforce

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> MBP, SantaRosa 15" - average hottest bottom temp = 54.

maztec

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Hp Pavillion Dv2615nr. Hot as hell!!!

jspeed04

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> 13" macbook - keeps me warm, toasty, and sterile.

awesomerobot

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> On my Averatec 7100, 40C idle, about 58C under load.

Genai

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> @poedgirl: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong.... I have a thermometer in my lap... the girls love to see it.

praevalesco

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I think you mean Celsius. It's a common mistake for you Fahrenheitians.

I can use my Dell M90 for hours and encounter only 2nd degree burns and compression injuries on my legs. I don't have temperature software so I can't quantify anything but, the Windows sticker on the bottom of the case has pretty much shrivelled into illegibility due to the heat. Bit like my nads after 2 hours of having a hot laptop on them.

Maxwells_Nylon_Hammer

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> According to iStat Pro on my black MacBook (2.2GHZ), it shows as 83˚.

It flat ramps up with World of Warcraft, though.

hamsammich

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I have a 17" HP dv9000, and it idles at 50-55 degrees Celsius, but maxes out at 65 degrees. Not bad, considering the temperatures you guys have been getting. I use my laptop as more of a portable desktop, though, rather than actually putting it on my lap.

gforce

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Dell Inspiron E1505, measured with an IR thermometer, I got 125F on the hottest spot on the bottom (surprisingly not where the CPU is).

It get so hot I worry it'll fry itself sometimes.

lafond66

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> 12" 1.5 GHz Apple Powerbook, last generation right before Macbook Pro's came out. 1.25 GB RAM. Average temp while watching video or other CPU ingtensive tasks is about 130 F. This is usually laying down in bed with the computer on my chest.

alejandrrroh

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> @MeNotYou: I'd say that most of the people here don't have a thermometer capable of reading the temp on the bottom of the laptop handy.

poedgirl

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> my 1 year old MBP hits over 100 F just sitting idle. always has.

mutantshark

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> ibook G4 1.33Ghz at a cheese melting 133F on the CPU top

npa.189

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> HP 9260NR
Where-on Lap
How Hot- Pretty Damn Hot, when CPU is under 80% load, it's bearable
Specs-C2 Duo 2.0 GhZ, 2 GB RAM, Vista Ultimate x64, 2x 120GB Western Digital SATA2 HDD's, 17" screen, about 2 hour battery life.

Crazysamz

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> dell E1505...not even warm to the touch

awperk

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> i have an Asus EEE pc 4g. This thing heats up so fast after jump a few minutes. I am pretty sure it is because there are a minimal amount of fans due to size. Overall i love it as a second computer to mess around with but it doesn't compare to any Mac or Sony like laptop.

jspec1594

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Don't own a laptop worth talking about... it's my 4 yrs old now.... for the record Inspiron 8100 with the bottom @ 83 F.

What it's most interesting is how many people just cannot follow simple instructions about posting a temperature reading at the bottom of the lappy.
Not the CPU, GPU, "not too hot" or "not too bad".. or whatever other temperature of other hole you might what to stick a thermometer in.

Simple question... few answers worth a dime.

Simply amazing.


aec007

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Dell Inspiron 1501
49c-54c

Don't really have a way to measure other than using "SpeedFan"


PlasmaMachine

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Vaio CR190 2.2 Core 2 Duo GHz measured at 39.6C case temp while at 59C core temp. I use it to warm up when i come inside from the snow

vmackattack

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Oh by the way, a great way to view internal temps on a mac via the dashboard is a widget called iStat Nano. Show s all stats about your comp. I think I found it at lifehack... probably a google will do.

ZoomWaffle

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My 13.3" Sony S460 is about 3 years old now. Sexy it is but, hot too. It becomes untouchable when it thinks it has some work to do. It's kinda loud too. I must say though, it still looks better than many of the new people the people carry around.
I would say my S460 is the hottest laptop I have seen, and being in a University where everyone is required to have a laptop, I've seen many.

Faforce

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> It gets real hot on metal buttons on pants. I think I was branded by a levi button on my... tralala.

ZoomWaffle

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Mac Book Pro, 2007. CPU at 122 degrees Fahrenheit,

ZoomWaffle

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> mALX. i can feel my jewels frying whenever (rarely) i put it on my lap.

Sheemo44

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I make eggs in the morning with my MBP while watching youtube videos. And then if I want bacon I just need to start a video conference. So sue me if I like to wakeup to smell of crispy bacon cooking!

whobutsb

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My laptop goes nowhere near my goods...

cryptoknight

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I have a 15" MBP and it runs extremely hot. Before I got the rubber pillars that iSkin makes that elevates the laptop higher the standard rubber pillars just wouldnt cut it and it would run really hot even on my desk. So these elevate the laptop a little higher allowing more air and heat to flow through the bottom. But if i lay on my bed and rest it on my lap i definitely need the comforter in between the computer and my lap.

Apple_Inc.

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> i've never measured my work laptop's external temp, but my POS HP6125 (i think) gets to 122F internally and begs to shutdown daily while sitting in its docking station doing nothing. I always say NO, and it threatens to burn out the harddrive, but then backs down like a sucka.

i can't wait for the lease to end so i can get something better.

that said, i've never felt it or my cheapie compaq get hot enough externally to bother me.

drewheyman

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> CPU: 59 centigrade
GPU: 64 centigrade

Toshiba Satellite A100-SK9
Definitely not one for the lap.
(With that also comes terrible battery life)

JeffAndersen

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My HP d6000 doesn't get that hot, maybe 80 degrees, all a guess = ) But it's never been hot, just warm = )

KronikFpLiOnYkD

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> macbook 13.3" 2.16ghz core2 duo. Runs 55C to 60C when surfing the web and listening to music but has reached 89C when using handbrake.

jalter

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> i have an hp dv9035, and am no stranger to videochatting while playing a stressful video game while talking online and my laptop stays fine as long as i leave the fan space open. the fan has very nice ventilation ducts, but it needs space, otherwise this thing will get hot as shit before shutting off automatically cause of the heat.

marlow2689

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Disclaimer: I didn't read any comments on this post. (Sorry it's late and I'm getting over the flu and there's like 60 comments at this point)

But I win this post. I had a Sager 9860 for a whole year. Desktop Pentium 3.8, ran at about 1,000 degrees Fahrenheit. Blue screened 4 times in an average day and gave me hand callouses. Would boot maybe 50% of the time if it wasn't plugged in. Literally was a space heater first, a laptop second. I hate Sager. It was fast as anything in it's day, but had it's own corona.
I'm pretty sure it will turn into a neutron star at some point. Have I mentioned I hate Sager? Very hot laptop. Made me sterile I think.

SchruteBuck

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I have a macbook pro, and if im jsut surfing the web, it hovers around 60C, but it has peaked and made some loud sharp sound at around 87C. It scared the crap out of me, and now, if it ever gets to 80C, i close everything, and let the fans do their work.

slagathore

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Here's how you keep from burning your lap. Call your computer a notebook, not a laptop. Notebooks belong on the desk, so you won't get burned.

I keed...

EBone

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Macbook Pro, 15 inch, 2 GHz, 2 gigs ram
7 months old

CPU 131F/55C
Enclosure Bottom 110F/43C

Nocturnia

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Fujitsu T-4220 Core2Duo @ 2.0 Ghz

Max temps just shy of 80 C

Stang70Fastback

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My 630m gets hot enough to make my crotch a little swampy after a bit. That's why I use a 3-ring binder between the two.

nobodyzhome

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> if a nokia n800 with bluetooth keyboard counts as a laptop, then room temperature.

notatoad

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Playing WOW on 2.33 GHZ MBP, case temp is 40 C... CPU is 80C

Xavoc

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> @xtremesniper: Okay I actually meant "on my lap" not "on my laptop".

xtremesniper

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My first gen Macbook usually idles at 60 degrees, but it can go lower if I speed up the fan or am sitting in a cooler environment. If I'm doing some intensive stuff, it usually goes to 70-80. I almost never have this thing on my laptop without some sort of protector like a cutting board in the way.

xtremesniper

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> MBP - 1.83, family planning the $#@ JOB's way.

FireBALL

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I don't have an exact temperature, but thanks to cheap components from the manufacturer, my Toshiba Satellite A60 would run quite hot until it overheated and shut itself down. After replacing the system board, it runs significantly cooler, but still somewhat warm. Maybe I'll use a statistics program to find the exact temperature if I can find a good program later.

RomeoDude

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> macbook from august about 150 C accoring to smc fan control

bwilliams18

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My Macbook only gets to about 70-80 degrees so it's not bad at all.

CarbonatedWater

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Is this arstechnica? Are we compiling official like graphs in excel now? You forget your place giz.

praevalesco

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> additionally, alot of you are frakking dumb for thinking you will contribute to the compiling of a useful chart if the data points will involve "not too hot" or the temperature your testicles are supposed to stay at.

deucailion

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Dell XPS M1710
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU T7600 @ 2.33GHz (2 CPUs), ~2.3GHz
2046MB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce Go 7950 GTX

Processor currently running at 42C. However I'd say it would range from 25C-50C. It's definitely very hot to the touch, so it's a good thing it stays mostly on my desk hooked up to my external monitor.

Even though it does get a bit toasty, it runs much cooler than my previous Dell XPS Gen 2. I wouldn't be surprised if that thing got >80C.

Archdukey

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Gotta be the legal eagle here - Apple has not in and way officially called their little compy's "laptops" I think since they moved up to the G4 chips. The are "portable computers" and Apple states they should always be operated on a hard, flat, unobstructed surface for optimal air flow. Just had to correct the terminology...

And yeah, my MBP Core Duo gets pretty warm when I'm working in Aperture and running a few other apps at the same time. According to a widget I have, the processor temp hangs out around 140 degrees normally, going on up to about 180 when really humming along.

NightElfMohawk

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Bottom enclosure for my Macbook is at 80ºF according to iStat Pro, CPU is at 117. That's with PS CS3, Safari, iTunes, and Pages running, plugged in, set to Better Performance.

thechansen

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Just surfing the Giz and my bottom enclosure temp of my 15 inch MacBook Pro is 101 degrees!

Ranged30

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My black macbook is so hot I stuck my penis in the dvd slot..... you know what they say, once you go black you never go back.

praevalesco

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> 40ºC average, for the record.

AqueousBeef

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My CPU consistently runs about 140 Fahrenheit in my Macbook. (measured via istat pro). ive seen it get as high as 160.

i swear, apple will be remembered one day for kick ass mp3 players, and killing all our future generations with their laptops.

deucailion

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> What part of "list REAL temperature on the bottom surface" do some of you not understand? Or do you just enjoy typing random unsolicited gibberish?

At any rate, I have a Compaq F750US(Turion X2 TK-57) and at full load the underneath heats to about 45C.

MeNotYou

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> my macbook air stays at about 120 F, i am about to bring it in. (RPM at 6200 always)

jonahman2003

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Since the latest OS X Update my MBP 17" has resumed having its overheating issues it had back when I first got it april 07. Now on 10.5.2 I've seen some scary (like 70C) numbers -- with the average being 45-49C.

defnotpaul

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> MBP 2 Ghz, 2 Gigs ram
Bottom Enclosure is 103º and is resting on my lap.

I've got a handy little temp app that tells me the temp of all the major bits as pieces. The read out is at the top of the screen.

Oldbrass

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Macbook - CPU temp 69C running Photoshop, iTunes and Safari.

kreativ

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I swear I've gotten burned on the tops of my knees with the Dell XPS M1710. Like boiling frogs. A few times it has hung up when I was trying to Hibernate and I hadn't noticed. When taking it out of the case an hour later, the keyboard is too hot to touch.

RevRagnarok

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> 15" MacBook Pro 6 months old.
about 30ºC

hazaelox

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> @Rhomp: It would seem the ASUS F3 series all suffer from the same heat problem when burning discs.

poedgirl

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> i have a MBP and it never runs past 45ºC if it does, i just turn this on [www.mactips.org]

AqueousBeef

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Any diagnostic program that gives real time temperature out there for laptops?

I don't have any kind of thermometer handy, but my Dell XPS M1210 is a pretty damn good blanket heater.

Trowble (XBL/PSN)

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Until I got it repaired, my Alienware m7700 would randomly power down in the middle of anything graphics intensive. I soon figured out why. I found with a Temperature utility that the system's emergency shutdown temperature was 85 C. (158 F.) I hit that critical limit more that 15 times... Its a wonder the thing didn't melt.

MrCitizen

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Asus F3sv keeps me nice and toasty while play CS:S and CoD4. (45~55C CPU). When Burring DVDs i could use the bottom as a George Foreman grill. No really it would probably cook eggs, have not tried, yet.

Rhomp

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> @Jesus Diaz:

It will be very hard to get any accurate external temps from a range readers. It's not real accurate to sit a laptop on top of a thermometer to measure the heat, some spots will be hotter than others and different thermometer styles will read differently.

How about CPU temps?

Here's a dashboard widget for Macs: [www.shockwidgets.com]
My 12" PowerBook G4 runs about 115º F CPU heat and is comfortable to use.

nocar

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Oh one more thing, the Brick-Size powerbrick will also burn you. I'm affraid to set it on my leather seats in my car ir gets so hot.

HJTravels

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I have 2 laptops a Dell D800 and a HP tc4400.
The HP just gets annoyingly warm <100 Fahrenheit but the dell has the memory compartment right over your "tender area" and i measured the temp as 125 degrees when it was running with proper ventilation at idle.
If your running anything intensive well it preforms free vasectomies.

flame500

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I have a macbook 2.16 GHZ, 2GB RAM, 160GB HDD. Average temperature while surfing the web and listening to iTunes (etc), is 55-60C, and while watching movies it can as hot as 80C before the fans get up to max and bring it down into the 70's.

Wolverine12889

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Gateway CX210X Convertible Tablet PC. Usual high is 60C, most I've gotten it up to using its own fans was around 65C, happened only once. Usually goes to 60C, fans down to 45C, etc etc.

SDreamer

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I have a Hypersonic-EX7. It's a huge 17" laptop with Dual DVD burners, a Desktop Pentium 4 3.8Ghz, dual 7200rpm 100GB hard drives, and 4 gigs of ram. It had 4 fans in the bottom and houls like a hairdryer all the time. You don't put it on your lap nor block any of the vents in the bottom, it'll burn you better then a hot cup of coffee from McDonalds.

HJTravels

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My Macbook Pro ( 2.33GHz, 2gig ram ) runs at a cool 57C during normal use ( currently running Photoshop, Terminal, Xcode, iTunes, Safari, XP via Fusion ) and during heavy use ( rendering and compiling large projects ) it usually runs about 70-80C. I use smcFanControl and MenuTempurature ( uses the cpu scaling .kext ). There is never a point when my MBP gets to hot for my lap.

mbpc2d.user

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> my 15" core 2 duo 2.16 MBP gets hotter than you would want!! I've read the bottom surface to be like 110 F. Thats not that much for a MBP but to me thats pretty hot for a notebook! Defiantly cant have it on you lap!! I called and asked apple about that temperature, and they said that it was perfectly normal, the way they design their notebooks is for the bottom to be a "heat sink" and "it's supposed to get that hot" and that "you should always have it on a hard surface!"

mshaid18

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I have an ASUS F3Jp, it gets reasonably warm, but not overly hot. Unless I start burning a DVD, then it starts burning my legs.

poedgirl

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> i have a macbook and I dont think it gets too hot

BTW doin this on my awsome new N810

takemetoyourtoaster

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> my mbp hits 209f while rendering.

odnet

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Powerbook G4 17 inch high-res model 1.67 and it has a fan issue. With istat, I have recorded temperatures of 167 degrees F. thats on the top of the CPU, according to temperature sensors. the bottom of the CPU is generally 110-130. this thing has left burn marks across my legs.
(keep in mind the temperatures taken are during WoW)

Spicylemon

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> @imTheKing: sorry for the double post, just wanted to confirm that this thing also has the Spek clear case on it and its much much cooler than my fiance's Powerbook G4 1.6ghz. Her's burns your legs if its on your lap, mine doesnt :)

imTheKing

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> @Cursemaster0:

Feirenheight that is :D

Cursemaster0

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> hp tx1000 tablet, hot enough to melt my balls off if I do anything video card related and the fan goes like a jet taking off even streaming flash video

Hypenotist

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I don't know how reliable iStat Pro is, but at most it's reached about 96-7 degrees F on the bottom enclosure after prolonged use. When on idle for a while, it settles around 85.

Kaiser-Machead's Chips Ahoy!

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Apple Macbook Pro (purchased November 18th, 2007) - 2.4ghz Intel Core 2 Duo with 4 gbs of 667 Mhz DDR2 SDRam, 200 gb HD - running temperature is 49 Degrees Celsius on the CPU and the harddrive is at 42 degrees. Im currently in he bedroom which is set at 75 degrees (i know its way too damn hot in here :( ).

imTheKing

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I've got a two-year-old Dell Inspiron 1300 and it usually runs between 45-55C. I have a fan control utility that I use that keeps it in that range and kicks up the speed of the fan if it were to get hotter than that.

pat.telfer

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> @Cursemaster0:

I acctually don't check my computers temperature...but i'm guessing about 90+ when I'm running all that junk I talked about.....

Cursemaster0

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> @DestroyerMTL: I've had the CPU temperature read at 69C and the enclosure bottom was damn close to that.

DestroyerMTL

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My Macbook can get hot enough to scald. I don't worry about it failing due to heat anymore, this kind of design flaw is exactly what applecare is for.

DestroyerMTL

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My Sony Vaio (Room goes silent. Little boy "No MacBook?", "No little child", "Well then you STINK!", "Stupid , Kid.....") which is not, never will be, and I will never buy, any Apple product.

Yes I just spent about 5 seconds of my life (and yours) ranting about my hate for Apple Products.

And now for the hotness of it, It's usually warm. Unless I'm writing a 500 word essay in MS Word, Surfing about 5 tech blogs ,and doing some serious MySpace Messaging -then it starts to get hot- it's usually just right.

Cursemaster0

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Could we please get actual temperature measures? We would like to do a real graph. We love graph and we love Tufte. We need data. Thanks!

Jesus Diaz

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My Vaio SZ6 blows some scorching hot air out the back vent on a Summer's day, but still seems to remain quite reasonable on the underside and never has overheating problems. How objective do you want this to be? Do you want surface temperature measurments?

Drvec

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I have a Toshiba R15-s829 TabletPC. It gets semi hot. Not hot enough to burn but hot enough to make you sweat. The fan runs a lot and that can kick out some pretty hot air. There are a lot of vent holes on the bottom too. In my experience this laptop is a lot better than my old HP that only had a small hole for the fan. As well as my old 12" ibook that would get burning hot and led to the graphics card failing and having the main board replaced 3 times.

I think it is obvious but the more vents and larger the fan it seems to run cooler.

gregh2000

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My Dell XPS M170 gets pretty dang hot... at least as hot as our heating pad's low setting. I'll see if I can't get an actual temperature tonight.

tjvigil66

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Maintain testicles at ~95 F for best reproductive performance.

scarbrtj

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> ive got the dell xps m1330, and its hot whenever the video card is doing anything intensive. Running just word and firefox in vista, however, i can use it on my lap for hours.

There is a major problem with cooling in this computer, however, and if it gets too hot when watching a movie or playing a game (it did for me), a connection on the motherboard gets fried and the video card stops working. I had to send it into dell 2 weeks ago to get my motherboard replaced, and checking on forums like notebookreview and dell forums, i can see that the problem is very common.

danishh

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My HP dv6500t runs okay I think... Nothing more than 70? (Im guestimating).

My MB (the old ones... before intel) ran very cool Couldn't even notice the heat..

Megan Fox Iz Hot! ^-^ - ph15h

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My laptop keeps my "tender parts" nice and warm on a cold winter day.
Not too warm though.

-Dell Latitude D620


Intro24

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My Sony Vaio gets a little hot, not too much that it will burn my balls but i always use it with two little fans under the laptop and it doesnt even get any hot.

Mike918

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> my 13.3" mb is 6 months old and could hit up to 90 degrees normally at 52-55 thou heats up my ass through my messenger bag lol

Arsenal6

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> Dell Insperon 1501 gets fairly hot due to it has a amd sepron board and is running windows vista over one 512 mb memory stick

lewt2007

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I have an XPS M170 (I know, I curse myself for buying it too), and that thing will definately scorch your thighs while playing Hellgate: London.

eldubiousmung

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> My 17" MBP C2D gets decently hot when running a batch job in Photoshop CS2 in XP through Parallels while listening to iTunes and surfing the web. Not scorching, but hotter than my old Dell Inspiron 9200... However, it's less than half as thick. I'll take the ball scorching over the craptacular Dell Design; I'm not in the lifestyle of making babies anyway...

audioeric

]]> <![CDATA[How Hot Is Your Laptop?]]> I have a macbook pro, 15", 1 year old. I use and iLap. it's honestly Man's Greatest invention. It keeps the laptop cool, even when running games in Windows. Without the iLap it can get a little hot, but only while doing intensive stuff. But really, everybody who owns a Mac, should own an iLap. Trust Me!

CaptainSquishy

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