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Originally Posted by randalllewis
Jeez Jason, couldn't you, like, move your left hand to avoid the vent?
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But why should I have to adapt my habits to a laptop? Blowing hot air at the front left or right of a laptop is a stupid design decision - I don't think I've ever seen any laptop designed that way, and with good reason.
I'm left-handed, but right-dominant, so when I'm using the touchpad with my right hand, my left hand is either positioned to the left of the laptop, right in line with the hot air blowing out, or it's positioned to push the touchpad buttons, in which case the rest of my arm is out to the left - again in line with the hot air vent.
I'm definitely not the only one to complain about the near-constant stream of hot air blasting out of that system. AMD's CPU is a power-guzzler compared to an Atom chip, and I think to get the laptop that thin they had to go with virtually no CPU heatsink...so that means a fan blowing all the time.