I work on my laptop for a few hours each day, taking breaks to do other things. I originally had Vista on this but formatted to Ubuntu in hopes that the heat issue would be solved... hey, who knows, right? Anyway, it didn't help. The fan runs at times, but it doesn't seem to cool it down. It even gets hot when it's unplugged. It's an HP dv2315nr Egg Fryer (the Egg fryer bit was a joke) But is there some type of cooling accessory I can buy that would help? All I'm running is Firefox and a word processor! It really shouldn't be getting this hot!
2 of my friends are using laptop cooling pads and you may wish to consider one I dont know what brand they ahve but you can look into your local stores or trustworthy online sotres it is some of like thats http://www.morecomputers.com/extra.asp?pn=F5L001ER note: just showing example, dont know about the site and credibility
Don't need that, just put a pen beneath the laptop so that there is air gap between the laptop and the table, this is sufficient for air circulation.
This is a hardware problem so changing your operating system wouldn't do anything. As for a cooling accessory, a cooling pad is the only thing I can think of.
I just figured with all the junk that Vista came with, the less that would run, the better off I am. I have noticed that my computer hasn't been working as hard.
When it gets hot then pour some water in That ^^^ was a joke Get it to service. I believe your hard disk is burning
I've got a cooling pad and my laptop never gets hot. They can be bought pretty cheaply as well. Or you could use a pen but that just sounds like a dodgy solution to me!
ubuntu is "not" good at power managment so some laptop might have heating problem and this page has a lot of information about cooling down laptop http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthread.php?t=60914
Either you can elevate the laptop off of the surface, or you can get a cooling pad, also you get get one of those ice things you freeze in the freezer, take out and put under your laptop.
Yeah, I would imagine it is especially if you were to use the laptop 24/7, or even more than 8 hours, and especially it may take up freezer space and annoying configuration of putting under laptop and what... so yeah it does sound like a pain in the ass
my laptop heats up fast 2, but it's because of it being dual-core and i don't think the shit fan on the bottom is up to much.
you can buy a cooling pad with 4 fans. The pad can easily cool the Laptop even while working on it more than 8 hours.