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May 9, 2014 7:15 PM in response to SurfinThru2by John Galt,PowerBooks were discontinued long ago.
MacBook Pros and OS X are far more power efficient than any Windows PC. They dissipate heat primarily through their aluminum case.
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May 10, 2014 6:59 AM in response to SurfinThru2by Allan Jones,As John indicates, the last PowerBook was discontinued in April 2006 and even that model could do very little in today's web-based computing environment.
You can ask in the MacBook Pro forums here:
However, no matter where you ask there are two common factors in heating:
--The programs/tasks you are doing
--The fact that no laptop has room for big fans means it will always run hotter doing the same tasks than will a desktop computer with big fans. Few laptops are good gaming platforms as a result.