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Judging by all the comments I read on HN complaining about how "heavy" laptops are, you must be completely shredded and have trouble fitting through doorways.
by LAC-Tech 4y ago
Judging by all the comments I read on HN complaining about how "heavy" laptops are, you must be completely shredded and have trouble fitting through doorways.
- alkonaut 4y agoI regularly complain about how thin and light (and thus noisy, slow, and lacking ports) laptops are. I drag my laptop to the office around once per year, I don't really care whether it weighs 3x as much but if it was silent that would be terrific.
- causality0 4y agoI take it you've played with custom fan curves to minimize unnecessary fan noise?
- alkonaut 4y agoNo. But it isn't nearly cool enough even with fans on max, so I'd rather have a cooler but more noisy one tbh.
- causality0 4y agoSounds like you need to repaste it or set your TDP lower.
- alkonaut 4y agoNo there is literally (as far as I'm aware) no high power (45W) workstation laptops that don't throttle under just a while of high load. At least not from the major manufacturers I have to choose from (Dell precisions, Lenovo P series, ...). If you run a compile job or rendering job then after a while they throttle down as the temps go up. All I want is a laptop that properly replaces a desktop. One that says in the brochure that "We tested it flat out for 30 days straight and it never throttled once".
- icelancer 4y agoYeah I don't really get the hype around light laptops. My ROG gaming laptop that I use for coding has a 17" screen and weighs about 6.5 pounds and is called a "beast" in reviews. Not sure how 6.5 pounds is beastly. Who even notices the weight in a backpack, or worst-case scenario, a carry-on handbag? Pretty sure a 10.0 lb laptop would be fine.