Laptops heat and battery life

[gstoyle]

I'm just wondering how hot the PC Specialist high-end laptops get, and if they always require a cooling stand?

I've currently got a laptop (HP Envy 17) that runs incredibly hot even in pretty normal use...almost too hot to touch in the top-left corner (presumably where the graphics card is located), and this means having to cart around a cooling stand wherever I go.

Also what is the battery life of these high-end laptops. I'm not after miracles but my current system lasts about 30-40mins even when not playing games....in fact playing games it'd probably last about 10mins.

I'm not a big gamer so 2hrs under normal usage would be nice.

Thanks.

 

[jonny123]

I'm just wondering how hot the PC Specialist high-end laptops get, and if they always require a cooling stand?

I've currently got a laptop (HP Envy 17) that runs incredibly hot even in pretty normal use...almost too hot to touch in the top-left corner (presumably where the graphics card is located), and this means having to cart around a cooling stand wherever I go.

Also what is the battery life of these high-end laptops. I'm not after miracles but my current system lasts about 30-40mins even when not playing games....in fact playing games it'd probably last about 10mins.

I'm not a big gamer so 2hrs under normal usage would be nice.

Thanks.

not to sure about the battery life but if your that worried you can buy a upgrade or buy another battery,as for the heat i would assume there fin looking at the forums you can see the service and standard of pcs is amazing,i doubt they would sell a laptop if theres going to be a issue

 

[PCS]

The higher the performance, the warmer they can become but our laptops are certainly not too hot to touch and no model requires a cooling stand - these are optional.

Battery life is variable - depending on what you are using the laptop for what devices (Bluetooth, WiFi, etc) are turned on. Have a look at the the "detailed specification" tab on the configurator for the official battery life test for each model.