[ltp] X60s overheating??

[curson]

On (21/11/06 11:37), Pau Fernández wrote:
> - What is your experience with this laptop's "design". Does it get
> uncomfortably hot to touch the cover, and use the keyboard, as some of
> these testimonies suggest?

The right palm rest gets warmer than the left one, and definitely warmer
than the one I was used too (on my old laptop, a Presario, thus of a
completly different kind...) but IMHO nerver gets "too hot". 
It is something that definitely can be felt while typing or using the
trackball with the right hand on the palm-rest, but it's not
uncomfortable or something that makes the X60s unusable: not for me at
least.

> - I've even seen someone blaming the wireless card for the heat
> problems (couldn't find the link now), so I guess we have the CPU
> itself, the hard disk and the wireless card as possible "suspects".
> What are your opinions on this??

>From my experience I came to the conclusion that is defintely a wireless
card issue: I can use the laptop for long period without any hint of
heat when the WiFi card is switched of or strongly idling. 
The temperature report about the CPU are always quite low (normal use
put them around 40°C-42°C) and as far as I know the only "overheating"
problem is related to the right palm-rest, who has the WiFi chip under
it as the main cause.

> - Do you think this laptop can be used comfortably while the CPU is at
> 100% (maybe it's not its normal function, but I occasionally may have
> to run long simulations in this thing). What is your experience on CPU
> intensive performance??

Using a Gentoo I have quite a lot of compiling to do on it, and so the
CPU is often at 100%, even if it stays there for not so long times
usually (it is really a fast dude!). So I don't know what to say about
long period of time at 100%, but as I pointed out above, the CPU seems
to deal well with higher temperature, and the system keeps it quite
under control easily. Plus, an increase in CPU temperature doesn't
reflect on sensible "touchable" positions for hands or wrists, at least
I haven't noticed it.

> Thanks a lot in advance,

You're welcome :)
Bye

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