Upgrade your laptop's CPU for better performance.
Upgrade your laptop's CPU for better performance.
your laptop matches the size of your desktop and is equally heavy, but it feels much worse.
Sandy and Ivy mobile i7s run hot. Very hot. My GT780DXR has an extensive heatsink setup and even it's 2670QM can hit 80C when pinned. 90C if it gets a little dusty. I do not believe that ThinkPad will run a mobile i7 for very long unless it has a beefier heatsink than I'm assuming it does. And you may be stuck with Sandy Bridge as its unlikely that it even has a bios update to support Ivy Bridge CPUs. Mobile platforms are abandoned very quickly, even high end ones.