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I have had thermal issues both in my old Lenovo T61P and a more recent Macbook Pro 15, both with dedicated graphic cards. No replacing of soldering paste on my

I have had thermal issues both in my old Lenovo T61P and a more recent Macbook Pro 15, both with dedicated graphic cards. No replacing of soldering paste on my part was ever able to improve the situation, with the result of having powerful machines only on paper, that were brought to their knees even by light workloads. My Mac becomes impossibly hot and slows down playing games like Hearthstone and Civ5, FFS. I have long decided that my next laptop (regardless of the brand) will have integrated graphics and a medium TDP CPU, and I will just limit heavy workloads and gaming to my desktop.

skgoa 8y ago
> I have long decided that my next laptop (regardless of the brand) will have integrated graphics and a medium TDP CPU, and I will just limit heavy workloads and gaming to my desktop. You get more bang for your bucks this way, too. Desktop hardware costs a fraction of a comparable laptop.
- Kurtz79 8y ago
  Of course. A laptop, no matter how powerful and well designed, is always going to be a compromise compared to a desktop, in terms of raw power and relative cost. The tradeoff is convenience, where you would have single machine that is able to fill all your needs (power and mobility), instead of two. But, for me at least, in the end it's not worth it. Also, cloud and sync services made working in parallel on multiple machines almost painless.