dell precision m70 question

hey guys just wanted to know if these lappy's run hot .. literally are there heat issues when gaming??... what if the laptop is on your lap for awhile??

the specs are hot...

7lbs
15.4 wuxga
NVIDIA® QuadroTM FX Go1400 256MB
80gb 7200rpm hd

 

Anyone who runs their laptop on their lap is risking their health bigtime, whatever their choice of "lap"top. My M70 barely blinks when running games. It has loads of redundancy. Hot? These chips are designed to be fine up to 100 degrees C Without any mods my M70 runs between 39-54 C. The fans bring temp back to lower figure when called for. Is that too hot? For a user using the computer as it was designed, it is cool where it counts -it never gets hot on the keyboard. If you want to search for heat, it gets hotter behind keyboard and more so underneath. Heat is dissipated through multiple vents on sides and back. The fans are very quiet. One is always running at a low setting. The ibook I used use for a while was quieter but hotter. My old i8100 had much noiser fans and seemed to average about the same heat reading as the M70, though with far less ability to go to the outer reaches of computer needs. I would be interested to hear feedback from other M70 users.

 

here's a review of the m70 on this site in case you hadn't seen it

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2302

 

Yes. A fine review which was pivital in putting in my mind the advantages of having an M70 over a i6000 or D810, even for general computing.

 

are you going to use your lappy for cad/cam? maya and soo forth??
If not the 9300 can be had for much less money and offers a better video card. the m70 is primarily a professional workstation.

 

The M70 isnt a bad system, but some report it runs warmer than the 6000 and 9300.

You probably need to ask yourself what you will be using the laptop for and what your budget is.

The M70 is a well built machine.

 

I got my M70 in Australia for no more than "equivalent" (6800 gpu) i9300. So with advantage of size, weight, tougher build, and a great gpu, I went for M70. Just a beautiful pc: powerful as well as (to me) at the very limit of portability. "professional workstation" covers a lot of pc's. It is a very very good all-round notebook. For gentle loads for lots of walking around I would of course prefer a D610 or i710m, and for dedicated stay-at-home computing the 17" screen of the i9300 - but for a portable workstation with loads of redundancy this is a great compromize. The equivalent IBM Thinkpad with WUXGA screen (just out of this world) costs twice as much.