Actually nobody is a typical computer user.
Heat sucks because it's requires more and more expensive and ellabrate cooling solutions.
Even if a person doesn't care weither or not a cpu uses 50 watts vs 90 watts, the results speak for themselves. How many people like to sit down next to a computer to listen to their mp3's and end up having a device thats only slightly less annoying then having a hairdrier blowing in your ear.
Then you start having reliability issues, harddrives crap out quicker, video performance degrades, and the stability of the machine suffers. A "normal" user may not notice it so much, but if your a OEM that has to maintain 3-5 year contracts with it's customers, or your in a IT deparment and have to choose between vendors to pick the 500 odd new computers for the next upgrade cycle then you definately will begin to care vary rapidly about overheating issues.
Heat issues is one of the major reasons that while AMD has much better performance to price ratios to it's Intel counterparts, Intel is still dominates in the low-mid range server markets.
Heat sucks because it's requires more and more expensive and ellabrate cooling solutions.
Even if a person doesn't care weither or not a cpu uses 50 watts vs 90 watts, the results speak for themselves. How many people like to sit down next to a computer to listen to their mp3's and end up having a device thats only slightly less annoying then having a hairdrier blowing in your ear.
Then you start having reliability issues, harddrives crap out quicker, video performance degrades, and the stability of the machine suffers. A "normal" user may not notice it so much, but if your a OEM that has to maintain 3-5 year contracts with it's customers, or your in a IT deparment and have to choose between vendors to pick the 500 odd new computers for the next upgrade cycle then you definately will begin to care vary rapidly about overheating issues.
Heat issues is one of the major reasons that while AMD has much better performance to price ratios to it's Intel counterparts, Intel is still dominates in the low-mid range server markets.
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