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Originally Posted by Dylrob
A laptop is designed to be set down on a flat surface. Trying to use them while standing somewhere is awkward at best. Also sitting them on top of your lap is ill advised.
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While I agree with the first two points, the latter can fixed with better designs. I have an Asus UL30A-X5 13.3" laptop with Core 2 Duo SU7300 1.2GHz which features more than 8 hours battery life. It gets slightly warm to the touch but never hot. Meanwhile, my brother's Acer netbook is capable of burning the skin on your legs despite the supposedly lower-power Atom N230 CPU. Newer processors from Intel and AMD are coming out with lower heat output compared to earlier models which should help quite a bit in lowering heat generated.