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Helping my niece get a laptop for college.... I have an HP I7 QuadCore laptop that generates a scary lot of heat. How are the I7 PowerBooks at generating/dissipating heat? Have people been having problems?
MacBook Pro with Retina display
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.
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.
I have an HP I7 QuadCore laptop that generates a lot of heat. How are the I7 PowerBooks at generating/dissipating heat?
