A Helping Hand when I needed one !

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 09:04:25AM -0500, Tim Tisdall wrote:
> Awesome.  :)
> 
> I feel your pain too, because my laptop can barely finish compiling a
> kernel without overheating.  It's plenty fast enough (I think), but they
> didn't design the thing for sustained CPU usage so the heat goes from a
> safe-ish 60C to over 90C.  At about 90C the machine does an emergency shut
> off to save itself (the safe highest temperature for my CPU is 62C).  So,
> make sure your new machine isn't an Acer Aspire laptop which overheats like
> mine.

I find that cleaning dust and such out of the heatsink/fan every 6 months
or so really helps laptops run better.  They eventually stop being able
to cool.

Of course I have 3 cats in the house which doesn't help.

-- 
Len Sorensen
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