--- On Sat, 25/12/10, Manokaran K <[email protected]> wrote: > > > But be warned that it could get really hot, > especially when > > > heavy duty stuff > > > like compiling is being done. > > > > Oh My God, Are you saying that only Acer exhibits this > behaviour ? > > if so i need to drop Acer. > > My assumption is that any laptop will get hot with a > task which stresses > > the processor > > > > > I'm speaking from my experience with two acers after > having used a vaio > and a dell. Acer is certainly the hottest. Specifically, > the 12" TM 6292, > which is my main laptop becomes uncomfortably hot to even > to touch. > > I often run a script that generates dummy data for my > application and when I > do that, it gets so hot I have to move over to the other > laptop! The CPU > temp goes above 85 deg C and the skin temp should be around > 40-50 deg C! > > To be fair, my other laptop, an Aspire 4736Z does not get > so hot - but I do > not use it for heavy duty stuff!
This behaviour is strange. I strongly suspect that it is an issue with the OS support on power management. You need certain drivers to put the peripherals to sleep or power save mode which might not have been supported or properly done in Linux. Did you see the same behaviour in the default windows install that you would have got when you purchased the laptop ? If you did not, then it is an issue of OS/drivers rather than the laptop itself. _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
