A bit of our life, in words.

So, I loaded Windows XP to dual boot into it on my MacBook Pro… and seeing how I have a nVidia 8600M video card with 256MB of dedicated memory, I thought I’d try out Day of Defeat: Source (I’m a semi-regular on a server there). It was great (other than I didn’t have any sound). I was getting a regular 60-80fps. But it wasn’t long before I heard the fans started spinning up (apparently I’ve never had them go full speed before) and I could feel the heat through the keyboard. So I lifted the MacBook up to feel the bottom which was not HOT. Easily 3 or 4 times hotter than it is under normal operating.

So, while it may work well for gaming… it doesn’t work well for gaming. There’s no way that can be good for it. So while the power is there if I need it (video editing, photoshop, etc); it’s not there for gaming.

Anyone else have a different experience or opinion?