Ok, I have a company laptop and the area right over the hard drive is where my left wrist rests. It's really hot and very uncomfortable to type for an extended period of time. If it were mine, i'd format the joker and that would eliminate all extraneous processes that could be spinning the drive. IN my process list, Firefox is the only application really taking up any system resources at all.

The computer usually gets hot when listening to a CD or running iTunes... but for some reason lately, it's always hot.

ANy tips?

11/9/2005 4:26:32 PM

buy can of compressed air, turn off laptop, blow out as much dust from fan intake/exhaust vents as possible, turn on laptop

11/9/2005 4:29:49 PM

put the battery in the freezer for 2-3 hours while you run it off the ac adaptor

then turn off laptop

put battery back in

reboot


VOILA, problem solved

11/9/2005 4:37:42 PM

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"very uncomfortable to type for an extended period of time."

Stop typing.

It's a win-win situation for everyone.

11/9/2005 7:59:57 PM

my T41 gets hot. T30 gets a little hot. Lati D610 gets less hot than either of them.

11/9/2005 9:07:12 PM

what are the specs of the laptop?

11/9/2005 9:23:31 PM

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"If it were mine, i'd format the joker and that would eliminate all extraneous processes that could be spinning the drive."

Uhhh, no. This would hardly make a difference.

Some laptops are just that way by design. Your real solution is durning long stretches to use a seperate keyboard/mouse. I imagine you could put something over where your wrist sets, but that would probably add a lot of stress when you wanted to close the damn thing. Maybe velcro would help you attach patches of neoprene or something that you could remove.

11/10/2005 5:43:44 AM

every can of compressed air i buy blows out supercooled liquid instead. i read the instructions and it says to shake it well and to hold it upright..but it still blows out the liquid stuff. i'll be damned if i'm using that on my laptop

11/10/2005 8:03:04 AM

^http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/000565.php

11/10/2005 8:11:58 AM

^ We got one of those at work. Don't even bother. It takes at least a minute to build up the pressure in the can to the recommended limit and the little compressor is LOUD.

When you finally are ready to use it, the air that come out isn't any better than if you just blew air out of your mouth and it only lasts for like 10 seconds.

The air compressor is still here, just because we can use it to keep our hand-truck tires blown up, but the cans are long gone.

11/10/2005 8:55:08 AM

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"put the battery in the freezer for 2-3 hours while you run it off the ac adaptor then turn off laptop put battery back in reboot VOILA, problem solved"

Especially after condensation starts to build up on the battery - inside the laptop

11/10/2005 8:58:28 AM

It's a pentium 1.8, 1GB ram.

I would use a separate keyboard/mouse but I travel a lot and lugging that around is an extra hassel. And it's recently that the laptop has been heating up to unacceptable levels.

11/10/2005 9:04:49 AM

Really? Maybe a cleaning would be best. There are a couple of models I can think of though where the hard drive is placed right under your wrist and they just get damn hot no matter what.

11/10/2005 9:11:38 AM

that liquid coming out of the can is Co2, which wont hurt your computer internals.

11/10/2005 9:12:39 AM

yeah, the liquid in compressed air cans is harmless, but dont spray super cold liquid CO2 onto hot computer parts, thats always a bad idea

Just hold the damn can upright like the label says and use the compressed air to blow out any dust

11/10/2005 10:40:48 AM

Use the can of air...just don't tilt it at an angle or try to use it upside down. Also, are you sure the fan is working? You should be able to feel air being blown out of the vent...if not then that would definitely be a problem. Also, a lot of the more powerful laptops produce more heat...ask anyone that has bought a desktop replacement laptop.

11/10/2005 11:08:55 AM

Yeah the fan is working fine. It was the first thing I checked.

I just sat back down at work after my computer was idle for 15 minutes... and it's burning up. I'll take it home and open it up and spray it clean.

11/10/2005 11:55:55 AM

also, on every can of compressed air that I've used it said not to shake the can at all

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11/10/2005 1:39:44 PM

damn... i just looked at the can and it does say not to shake it...
well should i open up the laptop and spray it out that way? or just spray through the small holes and vents? Is this an effective way to blow out the dust? It seems like it won't come out good that way, or the dust/lint will get blown to another section of the computer.

11/10/2005 3:21:51 PM