That keyboard doesn’t look so good. Be interesting to hear people’s impressions of it. I’m also very leery of core i7′s in laptops in general. I guess I’ve melted too many full blown laptops that had core i7s.

i7′s don’t necessarily run any hotter than i5s and especially i3′s… Often they run cooler because they’re a higher bin part and are less likely to have defects that cause heat islands. TDP is actually a representation of thermal constraint at a given power level, not strictly a power consumption one, and i7′s are very comperable to the rest of their core brethren

Sounds like the laptops you experienced that with are by companies that cut corners and didn’t put the necessary cooling in place to dissipate the TDP of that processor… Which is on the laptop maker, not the chip inside it.

That said, if anything is going to have compromised cooling it’s going to be a cheap ultra thin laptop exactly like this.