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I'm in the market for a new laptop, and I have a special requirement: I need to be able to take it back home to Cyprus and use it in 45C heat without it melting!
I thought about simply looking for ULV laptops, but from what I've seen by looking at machines in stores, many manufacturers use the reduced need for cooling that low voltage processors give to make their laptops thinner and quieter instead. I don't think a passively cooled laptop, or one with just a single tiny low speed blower fan, would survive the kind of heat I'd put it through, especially if I'm using it for 6 hours a day.
I've actually been tempted by the Asus Zenbook UX305, it's in my price range and has very good specs, but I'm worried about using ANY ultrabook back home.
My price range is under £800, preferably closer to £600. Preferred screen size is 13", would go up to 15. Use will be word processing, light image editing, watching streaming video, and light gaming - wouldn't be running Skyrim on it, but I'd like it to handle something like Pillars of Eternity, Quake Live, stuff like that, and to handle them in the heat without catching fire.
I thought about simply looking for ULV laptops, but from what I've seen by looking at machines in stores, many manufacturers use the reduced need for cooling that low voltage processors give to make their laptops thinner and quieter instead. I don't think a passively cooled laptop, or one with just a single tiny low speed blower fan, would survive the kind of heat I'd put it through, especially if I'm using it for 6 hours a day.
I've actually been tempted by the Asus Zenbook UX305, it's in my price range and has very good specs, but I'm worried about using ANY ultrabook back home.
My price range is under £800, preferably closer to £600. Preferred screen size is 13", would go up to 15. Use will be word processing, light image editing, watching streaming video, and light gaming - wouldn't be running Skyrim on it, but I'd like it to handle something like Pillars of Eternity, Quake Live, stuff like that, and to handle them in the heat without catching fire.
But everyone has troubles, things break down and get heat damaged or just switch themselves off if you run them too long and too hot. My old Acer lappy started shutting off if I just watched Twitch for over 20', though admittedly the fan must be starting to go on that thing. There's no reason to tempt fate, obviously I'll get a cooler for when it's sitting on my desk, but it's a laptop, I will be taking it out and about, so something that runs cool enough to not soil its own pants and collapse in a heat of molten plastic in the summer would be good.