What laptop to buy.
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HP gear is usually reasonably well built, if not exactly the kind of system that sets the world on fire ('scuse the pun). Most overheating problems come from someone using their laptop on a duvet or in a dusty environment where the fans and heatsinks can't cope. HD overheating is a very rare problem so either yer really unlucky or you need to stop using it in bed!
HDs don't get that hot in ordinary use, certainly not compared to the GPU in a laptop or the CPU. If yours is overheating it's warranty time and, more importantly, time to back-up whatever you have on it.
Hard disk cooling products are, in my opinion, an utter waste of money. If you need them you have a faulty drive which will manifest itself in other problems, or you have a shockingly bad case or poorly designed laptop. I wouldn't buy HP gear myself, but they generally don't push out badly designed systems with known problems. They just sell mildly over-priced and under-specced gear with a cast-iron warranty - exactly what most people want.
High-end quality gaming systems they're not, but they do the job.
HDs don't get that hot in ordinary use, certainly not compared to the GPU in a laptop or the CPU. If yours is overheating it's warranty time and, more importantly, time to back-up whatever you have on it.
Hard disk cooling products are, in my opinion, an utter waste of money. If you need them you have a faulty drive which will manifest itself in other problems, or you have a shockingly bad case or poorly designed laptop. I wouldn't buy HP gear myself, but they generally don't push out badly designed systems with known problems. They just sell mildly over-priced and under-specced gear with a cast-iron warranty - exactly what most people want.
High-end quality gaming systems they're not, but they do the job.
Don - without being mean, that's bad advice. Windows installations are per machine, not per household. If you have a Win 7 disk for your desktop and try installing it on your laptop, it will be rejected unless you try nefarious means which I'm sure you're not advocating.
Dell was the subject of a lawsuit some years back where they charged for a Windows installation regardless of whether you wanted it not (brought by a Linux user) and Dell lost. You can claim back the OEM cost of Windows if you don't want it and it comes pre-installed, and that's the extent of it.
Most custom laptop manufacturers now offer the OS free of charge (i.e. included in the overhead of the system) so your advice is, at best, out of date and at worst ill-advised.
The only way this would be legal is if the original O/S was uninstalled from the desktop. Saving a few pounds on an additional system close to £2k is not what I suspect the OP is looking for.
Dell was the subject of a lawsuit some years back where they charged for a Windows installation regardless of whether you wanted it not (brought by a Linux user) and Dell lost. You can claim back the OEM cost of Windows if you don't want it and it comes pre-installed, and that's the extent of it.
Most custom laptop manufacturers now offer the OS free of charge (i.e. included in the overhead of the system) so your advice is, at best, out of date and at worst ill-advised.
The only way this would be legal is if the original O/S was uninstalled from the desktop. Saving a few pounds on an additional system close to £2k is not what I suspect the OP is looking for.
Came like that. The area around it isn't dusty at all, and it appears to be a hardware issue. Haven't looked inside, though, so I'll need to do that first.Bhaalspawn said: