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    I have an 8440p that doesn't cause nuclear fusion when it's under load, not exactly an overly thick machine either. I nearly bought a MacBook but this HP came along at less than half the price that a lower powered MacBook was demanding. No brainer really, MacBook would have had a better display but I doubt I'd be confident in it lasting. Got an i5 laptop with 8GB memory, brand new battery+charger and a brand new SSD for £90. Not a scratch or mark on it either.
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    That thinking is a novelty these days, been replaced with a claim followed by "do your own research".
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    Just what we need, low power CPU's with a piece of aluminium foil and an asthmatic borrower as a cooling system. Bet they'll still find a way to fuck the thermal management up
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    Which is why I am not going to bother going any further with this conversation. When your own bias overshadows basic physics and electronics design, you're never going to accept anything else.
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    Mine got no fix, Intel have a list of CPU's they did and didn't provide mitigations for.
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    Erm, yes it is. As has been pointed out several times, repeatedly hitting temps that high will eventually cause failure of solder joints due to PCB expansion and contraction. Case in point, Xbox 360. Try major SMD rework without preheating the board and watch it banana itself. You could always make sure you actually know the facts before calling Louis a biased and unreliable source of information. By outright refusing to acknowledge anything he says, you are showing more of a bias than he does. He points out what is right infront of him, on camera, like 52V LED supplies 0.25mm away from the CPU VCore rail.
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    Shame it's the truth. High temps will eventually kill the machine. Always running at 100% would be better for it than cyclic use which causes the PCB to expand and contract constantly. That's what killed the early Xbox 360's. An under-performing cooling system that causes so much stress on the solder than the balls started to fracture. Microsoft learned, extended the warranty period by several years as it was a design flaw, and fixed the issue on later console revisions.
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    Except the rest of the industry seems to have a better handle on thermals. I have a sodding desktop socketed Northwood hyper-threaded Pentium 4 in a Satellite A60. It's an inch thick and doesn't cook it's balls off. That CPU ran hot in desktop machines. Surely Apple can do better than Toshiba did 15 years ago given much lower TDP processors, better power managament and better cooling solutions. BTW, did you google LED backlight voltages? I bet you found an answer that you didn't like
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    You're stretch has described the avgerage light car transporter in the UK, 3.5 tonne rated and they weight nearly 2 tonnes unloaded. Most cars will push them to the weight limit but they don't constantly run at the edge of thermal limits and fail due to having "zero breathing room", they are just designed properly. If Apple are going to sell a machine that will spit out whatever energy in heat, they need a cooling system that will handle that heat load, plus more, without running right on the CPU's maximum junction temp.
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    I totally agree. If I buy a mid sized van and carry it's rated load, I totally expect it to overheat every 5 miles because it wasn't actually meant to be used like that.
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    They are series strings of LED's, and they they do run at higher voltages. Just google it and you get the answer, from an enormous array of un-biased sources.
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    I had issues with a 5500, try the March drivers. Seem to have done the trick for me.
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    *popcorn acquired*
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    Weeks to get a serial port to work, and when it finally works, you've frigged up IRQ's and the mouse no longer wants to know.
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    I have a 1600 Duron about somwehere, should still work if the pins are still attached.
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    I just cracked a SteamVR driver as the trial of 10 minutes is awfully short. By the time you've launched the software (starting the countdown), connected Bluetooth devices, setup SteamVR and launched a game, you have a couple of minutes to try and work out why it's not working before it quits. The best part is it monitors how long the SteamVR process has been running, so you need to restart everything. The trial to see if it works literally doesn't let you see if it works.
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    PSVR may be a good option, I'm working on PSVR + D4VR and Kinect setup and it works out cheaper than buying a full kit and works with non VR games too.
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    If the machine doesn't have an inherant design flaw that takes a lawsuit to correct, and the non-replacable battery doesn't fail, and the SSD doesn't wear out, and it doesn't get any form of moisture or humidity nearby then it *may* last. Form over function seems to be the norm these days, and Apple push that harder than anyone else.
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    But you know that the conspiritards will just claim that the released code dosn't have the 5G mind control software in it
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    I use 11 year old HP business machines, much better than anything consumer or Apple from the time. Built to last, and be serviced.
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    Well you quoted the edited post so the original is there
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    Actually you edited your post after I had commented
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    Especially for any kinf of video work or animation. A Macbook will probably start to throttle after running that kind of workload for too long too.
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    Do you really need a Macbook for that kind of usage? You'd get much more for your money with literally any other laptop, and have an upgrade path in the future.
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