Thanks to Swordmaker for the ping!
So many Windows 10 list pings tonight, it was a relief to get something else!! :-)
Dunno about the battery issue but the NVidia GPU in my Alienware M18X caused me years of grief.
Kept overheating to the point it serial killed the mobos.
Alienware finally relented and sent me a next-gen M18 to replace it completely but I really miss the other one.
It was so fecking cool looking, it was a sin.
This one?
It’s okay.
I miss my glowing grilles.
*Much* better performance and dual Radeon GPUs take away some of the sting but not all of it.
When I built my own desktops, I avoided NVidia cards unless there was nothing else available.
They always seem to have cooling issues with everything they make.
On the 18X, I could not even touch the left upper corner where the GPU lived.
This one, I can’t even *tell* where the GPU is.
Just no heat, no matter how hard I run it.
Meh.
I’m rambling again.
Combined General and Maryland “Freak State” PING!
Thanks, dayglored, I will forward to my son. He is in Seattle to attend the Dota2 International Championships.