How good are Lenovo Ideapads at handling heat?

Champ

Hi,
Question for any Lenovo users on boards.ie. I'm thinking of getting a Lenovo Z570 Ideapad with an I5-2450M.

It'll be theoratically used for heavy X264 encoding sessions now and then so my question is how well would the Lenovo cope with its CPU been taxed for e.g. 6 - 8 straight hours? Basically fan noise and heat.

I considered certain Dell models but my research generally indicated mid - high range Dells get both noisy and hot under load and also have questionable robustness quality.

I know laptops will get quite warm under load so I'm aiming towards a brand / model that can handle it better (even slightly) than its competitors without resorting to an external dedicated laptop cooling pad.

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Champ wrote: »

Hi,
Question for any Lenovo users on boards.ie. I'm thinking of getting a Lenovo Z570 Ideapad with an I5-2450M.

It'll be theoratically used for heavy X264 encoding sessions now and then so my question is how well would the Lenovo cope with its CPU been taxed for e.g. 6 - 8 straight hours? Basically fan noise and heat.

I considered certain Dell models but my research generally indicated mid - high range Dells get both noisy and hot under load and also have questionable robustness quality.

I know laptops will get quite warm under load so I'm aiming towards a brand / model that can handle it better (even slightly) than its competitors without resorting to an external dedicated laptop cooling pad.

Well reviewed Model on the interwebz, Currys sold thousands round the xmas when they had it on sale at good price and I remember Declan saying they had very few back with faults aswell, much less than the norm.

Oh and from what you've said it's a PC you should be buying instead.

Overheal

I was gonna say. A PC sounds more suitable for what you intend. Every laptop is going to generate heat, and noise. I don't know of any 'quiet' laptops. I couldn't even say with confidence yet how the Ultrabooks would fair under load, though of all the laptop options out there I'd place things like the ASUS UX31 as the best candidates for load management and heat dissipation. http://zenbook.asus.com/product/?c=4 check out the 4th or 5th image where it shows you the infrared.

The ONLY reason I don't have a Zenbook on its way to me right now is because I was recently given a choice between that and a more expensive, more experimentally-styled HP Ultrabook (14" Spectre) so out of morbid curiosity I went for that instead. If it was my money though, I'd be all in for the Zenbook.

Champ

Thanks for the replies.
I guess I always sort of knew that I'd likely have to put together a cheap rig based around an i7 and VNC onto it but was hoping to save the cash since I was going to get a laptop in the long term anyways.