Pre-purchase advice For Portable Video Playing (not editing)

Thinking of getting a sexy looking MBA for portable music/video playing.
Heard/seen a few problems and don't know if this is typical.
Maybe I should be looking at MB and MBP.
Is anyone successfully playing lots of video/youtube etc continuously?
Thanks

bobbyblue wrote:
Thinking of getting a sexy looking MBA for portable music/video playing.
Heard/seen a few problems and don't know if this is typical.
Maybe I should be looking at MB and MBP.
Is anyone successfully playing lots of video/youtube etc continuously?
Thanks
Inside Air-Conditioned environment:
Well, playing Smallville through MBA Superdrive using VLC, the temperature hits:
cpu: 60<65c
fans: 6200rpm
ps: After an episode or one and a half, sometimes it caused VLC to die. Don't know this is the Air issue or VLC or Superdrive.
However, youtube hits:
cpu: 65<75c
fans: >6200rpm(floating around; slightly higher than 6200rpm)
ps: I thought 6200rpm is the maximum but it really hits that far. And 75c isn't the highest, it can hits higher if u play more than 2 and continuously, it's like going to melt.

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