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Re: Why Apple stayed with PPC so long!
« on: November 07, 2009, 12:30:05 PM »
Quote from: tone007;528686
AMDs suck hardcore in laptops.  Definitely not cooler chips.

My Core2 Quad (Q9450), with the stock intel cooler reached a whopping 32 degrees (C) when using four separate instances of mencoder to convert a collection of different media files to mpeg-4 recently.

That's hardly hot running, is it?
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