Heat on Studio XPS 16 with SSD

I was looking through some Studio XPS 16 reviews and one of the biggest complaints is heat. I don't really want to deal with heat that badly (I wish the fan was louder to compensate for the Heat).

But I am comparing a Studio XPS 16 to a Sony Vaio F series, and I was wondering how would the heat generated be with 8 GB of Ram, i7 720 QM processor, ATI 5730 and a 128 GB Solid State Drive? The Solid State Drive is supposed to generate 0 heat, so I figured that would mean that I would not have to deal with the heat problems. Also I would get the RGBLED screen.

On a less important note....with a 128 GB SSD and a 9 cell 85 whr battery what kind of battery life am I looking at with those stats at 20% brightness and only word documents?

I would like to grab a dell as I found out I may have a 15% discount there, but I don't want to have to deal with a hot/throttled computer.

 

I have a 1645 with SSD. It still gets warm but I don't know how it compares to a conventional HDD.

 

Is there any throttling issues....and what does warm mean.....3rd degree burns on your lap, or slightly warmer then room temperature.

 

There is no difference in the heat whether your are with SSD or HDD. The only difference I noticed is a bit longer battery life, but not that considerable.

 

SSD's can still get hot, in some cases hotter than normal HD's

 

The reason you go with SSD is for 200MB+ / sec speeds Windows loads quickly. Apps start instantly.

 

I agree with the above posters. There's really no difference in heat beteen SSD & HDD. The processors, however, can affect the heat. So if you are concerned about heat, maybe you should reconsider your processor choice. Generally the i7's (1645) get warmer/hotter than the i5's (1647). The 1645 has/had more throttling issues as well.

 

The heat on the palm rest has been noticeably reduced when I upgraded my laptops HDD by myself to an Intel G2 SSD.

 

Oh I thought that because they didn't have moving parts there wasn't heat generation. Not 100% sure about that, but I was really hoping for it.

I wanted to get a 128 GB SSD because I believed that that $150 was worth it and I have a 1 TB hard drive anyways, and I was hoping for the lack of heat.

Heat is my biggest problem. But I really want the i7 for gaming and stuff. Now quad cores might not be as useful but I want the computer to last for 3-4 years and down the road I'm pretty sure quad core will become more important.

 

Don't worry SSDs are really cool...it's just like there was nothing under the palmrest...big difference as compared to 7200RPM Seagate I used to have in 1645...

 

In general they're cooler but if you use them a hell of a lot in sequential writes and stuff they'll get hot just like any other electrical device. Even USB sticks get hot when you use them a lot.

 

SSDs do weigh considerably less than HDDs, too.

When I held my 500GB HDD in one hand and my 256GB SSD in the other, the SSD was like a feather. I almost thought it was just an empty case, lol.

Heat: I went from the 500GB HDD -> 256GB SSD. Battery life: nothing significant. Maybe a few more minutes, haven't really noticed. Heat: yes, there is less heat near the palm rest, which makes extended typing more comfortable. Overall heat: most of it's coming from the GPU and CPU.