Dell Mini 10 - will an integrated TV tuner have heat issues?

If/when this option is available in the US, aren't chances high that the component will overheat/burn-out over time? The reason I ask is that almost all "usb stick" tuners have heat issues and develop issues over time. Is it clear yet whether the proposed tuner will be integrated chip (soldered) or socketed somehow and replaceable?

The cost of the 10 when spec'd with decent memory, better battery, BT, the higher rez screen, and a tuner will push the price into the $600 range easily, it seems. At that point, there are better alternatives used in conjunction with a usb tuner.

 

The TV tuner will probably be in form of a PCI Express Mini Card.

 

It is in the form of a mini-PCIE card: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ins1010/en/sm/tvtuner.htm#wp1128796. It is very, very unlikely to cause any heat problems or Dell wouldn't include it as an option.

 

Not sure i'd go that far, the 7900gs video card was an option on the 9400 and it had huge heat issues, that's just one example.

 

And that's why I say "very, very unlikely to", and not flat out "won't". There have been a few issues with various Nvidia cards lately, but who is to blame for those failures is still up for debate, and the machines with these problems are an exception rather than the norm.

 

A much more accurate answer IMO would be "i hope not".
None of us have any clue, tv tuners tend to run hot, just like high end video cards. In neither case does dell make the part, in both cases dell installs it and decides on the laptop's cooling abilities.

The difference is that high end video cards have active cooling, while the mini10 is entirely passive (last time i checked).
Considering that the mini9 gets mighty hot if you use the wireless heavily (so reports have said, at least. Mine doesn't, but "hot" here is 70*f ambient), i can see the mini10 with tv tuner getting a bit toasty.


I would say that it isn't likely to have fatal heat issues, but is likely to get pretty hot, personally.
Hopefully whoever makes the tuner will build it to withstand hit temps, just like intel did with the atom chip, and it will be fine.

 

Well I bought a TV Tuner directly from Dell which was one of the option while I was building my Studio. It got here with no documentation, no disc, not even a package. It was just thrown into the box. Everytime I used it, it got EXTREMELY hot.