On 8 January 2011 23:56, Rob Beard <r...@esdelle.co.uk> wrote: > On 08/01/11 21:22, Steve Fisher wrote: > >> My laptop is running hot so I have spent the last couple of weeks >> distro-hopping on my new Dell Inspiron N5010 laptop to have a look at >> the competition: >> >> Mandriva - I am a refugee from Mandriva, looking bad over on the forums, >> hardly any one there! Worked well, hardware recognised (and I know what >> I am doing!) >> >> Fedora - didn't like it, could fry an egg on my trackpad! >> > > <snip> > > I find that my laptop occasionally runs hot, I tend to throttle it down to > 1GHz but I do find that Flash (and Thunderbird) tend to hammer the CPU even > when idle. > > Maybe that doesn't help. > > I also recently replaced my hard drive (I have an Aspire 2920 12" notebook) > so I could get to the CPU fan when I had the bottom cover of the laptop off, > I blew the fan and lots of fluff came flying out. The funny thing is it > wasn't that long ago since I cleaned it before. Guess these things just > attract dust and fluff. > > Oh and you must have a big trackpad, best I could manage is a blob of egg > white on my trackpad. > > Rob > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
Oh all right, a quail's egg maybe, even throttled back to 1.2ghz (lowest possible) it is still running at around 60 deg C! Steve
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