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Laptop of El doomo:
-HP
-AMD Turion x2 @ 2.66 GHz
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-Nvidia 8400
-500 GB Hardrive
-Windows 7

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Alrighty:

Laptop of El doomo:
-HP
-AMD Turion x2 @ 2.66 GHz
-4 Gigs of RAM
-Nvidia 8400
-500 GB Hardrive
-Windows 7

-RC
Dangit RC, you've got me beat in CPU (barely), and in HD internal space...
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Re: Computer Specs

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Dangit RC, you've got me beat in CPU (barely), and in HD internal space...
Lol Craig, any new stuff cooking lately?

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No you aren't that odd (Well, yes you are but you know what I mean) I just have my desktop that I built because I wanted to have a dedicated Windows box. Until last spring I didn't have the desktop but decided I could afford to build one. The MBP is a pretty decent machine for CAD if you can get the heat issues under control. Any tips on that?
We have a granite table where I live, so heat is dissipated quite easily. No problems for me on that front.

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Re: Computer Specs

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Dangit RC, you've got me beat in CPU (barely), and in HD internal space...
Not really CPU Wise
In a benchmark i found, 2.2ghz turion can calculate 32 million digits of pi as fast as a 1.2ghz core 2 duo

Cinebench rendering a 2.2ghz turion is equal to a 1.8ghz version of your processor (same generation)

Ghz means very little now in processors, that race is over.

As for my specs
15.4" Macbook Pro (classic not unibody)
2.4ghz Core 2 Duo
4GB DDR2 667mhz 4-4-4-12
8600GT 256MB GDDR3
500GB Harddrive
Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) / Windows 7 RC (Win XP Home SP3 Before that)
3dconnexion Space Navigator PE and VX Revolution

Heat isn't really a problem. Long battery life is nice. As is thinness =P. Heat is nice in winter actually, makes my room warmer than rest of the house =P

In my room it sits on wire and wood rack i built (using a letter tray =D) that is 6" off the ground. I have used it with 100% cpu usage on my lap, burns when it hits my bare legs due to shorts but never uncomfortable. In OSX check out SMC fan control. I have had my processor at 85C for like 1 hour before mac kicked the fans in. Windows is much faster to kick them in but I think its because graphics card gets more use.
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Not really CPU Wise
In a benchmark i found, 2.2ghz turion can calculate 32 million digits of pi as fast as a 1.2ghz core 2 duo

Cinebench rendering a 2.2ghz turion is equal to a 1.8ghz version of your processor (same generation)

Ghz means very little now in processors, that race is over.

As for my specs
15.4" Macbook Pro (classic not unibody)
2.4ghz Core 2 Duo
4GB DDR2 667mhz 4-4-4-12
8600GT 256MB GDDR3
500GB Harddrive
Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard) / Windows 7 RC (Win XP Home SP3 Before that)

Heat isn't really a problem. Long battery life is nice. As is thinness =P. Heat is nice in winter actually, makes my room warmer than rest of the house =P

In my room it sits on wire and wood rack i built (using a letter tray =D) that is 6" off the ground. I have used it with 100% cpu usage on my lap, burns when it hits my bare legs due to shorts but never uncomfortable. In OSX check out SMC fan control. I have had my processor at 85C for like 1 hour before mac kicked the fans in. Windows is much faster to kick them in but I think its because graphics card gets more use.
SMC fan control has saved me so much heat related pain. The algorithm that Apple uses for their fan controls isn't nearly aggressive enough, and the settings on SMC take care of that quite nicely.

I'll have to check out building a little rack, as while I'm at my desk the laptop is sitting off to the side driving my monitor/keyboard/mouse.
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Re: Computer Specs

This is what I whipped up

Wood from garage, wire letter tray is meant to be stackable so the wires work quite nicely for keeping my laptop in place.

Whats odd is people always complain about heat in windows, in windows my fans kick in at 80 on the dot, on mac it cooks at 80-85 for a bit then it turns em up. Though right now where im sitting with it on my lap its fine at 50C with lowish cpu usage, streaming music from last.fm and such. So its honestly not that bad.
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