I know I'm replying to an old comment here but any computer, laptop or otherwise, that can't handle 100% load all the time is a piece of junk as far as I am concerned and not something I want to pay money for. Computers are designed to compute. What's the point of having multi-core, multi-ghz cpus and gpus if you can't use them at full power? I have access to a few year old macbook pro and I notice that when the gpu is running at 100% the CPU is throttled by more than half. WTF? So much for Apple's vaunted engineering. Obviously they have prioritized style over functionality and usability. I would gladly take a laptop that was a little heavier, a little bigger and even a little louder so that it could have the appropriate cooling necessary to actually run the hardware that is in it. Sorry for the rant, it's just that this is a pet peeve of mine. Heat should never build up in a well designed machine such that it significantly shortens component life. Heat cycles are far more damaging (heating-cooling-heating-cooling).
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