how hot is 75 degrees?

[rootaxs]

i'm not a thermal dynamics scientist, just a person who's looking for a good lappy. i came upon a good deal on a sager notebook with a P3 (desktop CPU) 1ghz chip. from what i hear, the heat on this baby is around 75 degrees.

so how hot is 75 degrees? Is it scalding enough to disallow me from putting the lappy on my .. err.. lap?

any comments highly appreciated.

thanks.

 

[venk]

Celcius or Farenhiet ?

 

[rootaxs]

hmm.. i guess it's Fahrenheit. i'm a newbie here in the US and am used to the centigrade scale... but if i'm not mistaken everyone uses Fahrenheit here right?

 

[WarCon]

If thats Celcius, where talking hot (167 Fahrenheit) but I am sure its only 75 Fahrenheit so it is only warm.

 

[rootaxs]

So "warm" is good right?

 

[Olias]

75 Celsius would be 167 Fahrenheit and very HOT to be running a processor. Also, 75 Fahrenheit would be 24 Celsius and is only 2 degrees above room temperature. So it?s either really good or very bad. Now was that with a heat sink and fan or just raw?

 

[rootaxs]

well, it's a lappy so i presume it's with the heat sink. basically what this guy did was insert a probe through the cd spindle (w/o the cd drive that is) and measured 75 degrees. just don't remember if it was F or C. <g>

 

[joohang]

I would stay away from mobile PIII 1 GHz.

It's too hot to run at that speed and most of the times it runs at lower speed to reduce heat. It is a laptop after all. Save yourself on the CPU and get a PIII 700 or 850 and spend the price difference on other goodies like lighter weight, video RAM upgrade, DVD-ROM, etc.