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[Ixse]

Drjohn, The few laptops I've opened have the sides and front taken by hard disk, card readers, dvd writer, battery, and even memory. The middle and the rear are places for processor and graphics unit. Cooling is usually at the back. A graphics card under the palm rest? That might be unusual if the few systems I saw so far are anything to go by.

My laptop is running pretty cool, but that is partly because I don't game much. In the game I play 3x a year it does heat up. It's not as warm though while rendering movies. Most other stuff doesn't take that much processing. Just a thought: If the OS requires 3d (like Vista) then the graphics card might be on all the time.

Regards,

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