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HP launches Linux-loaded Eee PC rival (Register Hardware)HP launches Linux-loaded Eee PC rival (Register Hardware)Posted Apr 8, 2008 23:21 UTC (Tue) by ibukanov (subscriber, #3942)In reply to: HP launches Linux-loaded Eee PC rival (Register Hardware) by drosser Parent article: HP launches Linux-loaded Eee PC rival (Register Hardware)
I am typing this on 12" Dell Latitude X1 laptop (which is re-branded Samsung Q30). It uses passive cooling despite having 1.1GHz Pentium-M CPU. It can get rather hot if left, say, on a sofa with heavy compilation running. Then CPU throttling kicks in and brings the CPU frequency down typically to 900MHz. But on a normal desk with room temperature at about 25C it would give just nice a warm feeling to the palms when touched no matter what it runs. For this reason I was really puzzled that Asus had to use a rather annoying fan on EEE with Celeron-M clocked only at 800MHz. The only reasonable explanation is that passive cooling would require to use expensive materials making noisy fan cheaper solution. So I would not be surprised to find fans even on subnotebooks with Intel's Atom.
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HP launches Linux-loaded Eee PC rival (Register Hardware) Posted Apr 9, 2008 13:30 UTC (Wed) by drag (subscriber, #31333) [Link] Well the Asus EEE uses a Celeron ULV underclocked to 630mhz.. But I don't think that underclock makes much of a difference. I have mine at it's Intel-rated speed of 900mhz and it doesn't get any hotter or run the fan more. Trouble is that I think that plastic is a decent insulator and the very small size means pretty much zero convection goes on inside the case. Plus small fans run faster then larger fans and faster smaller fans are much more annoying. Personally I wouldn't mind having a clunkier or heavier device if that ment it had a couple features like extended batteries or enough metal intenally to spread the heat out and avoid the fan altogether.
Over-underclocked Posted Apr 9, 2008 21:34 UTC (Wed) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] I also think that such a small thing must be hard to refrigerate. You know, surface grows as the square of the length: a laptop half the size has one fourth of the surface and therefore dissipates one fourth as much heat. And the plastic case cannot help.Out of curiosity, how did you overclock your Eee? Not that I need it right now, but it might be nice to have.
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