I wanted myself a little laptop for general use (Internet, music office tasks etc) and being the poorfag I am I couldn't really afford anything major. So I went for the HP 6720s for £300. For the money it's an okay little machine. processor is an intel celeron 540 @ 1.86Ghz, I put 3GB of RAM in it and installed Ubuntu on a secondary partition. (Arch comes next when I finally clear off Vista). One thing that gets to me is that it seems to be a little underpowered, and the fan often comes on when I start to do a lot at once. I read that attempting to overclock a laptop is a poor idea due to heat problems, but would there be any way to get around this problem? Anyone had any experience with this model? Anything upgradeable by any chance?
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Anonymous2008-09-05 18:50
ok first you need to know the oc password which is nromally 6
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Anonymous2008-09-05 21:45
I had a scathing reply prepared for you, but since you are a fellow Linux-ite I will go easy on you.
Overclocking isn't worth it, unless you are doing crazy shit like immersion cooling. You get a few extra MHz in trade for shortened hardware life. PC performance is affected much more by FSB speed, I/O throughout and number of cores than pure MHz. I wouldn't bother.
Also, Ubanto has a fuckton of overhead, so obviously it's going to get hot. If you want less system activity for basically the same functionality, just use Debian.
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Well, like I said, as soon as I clear Vista from the HDD Arch is going on there in it's place and i'll probably use that as my main OS from then on with Ubuntu as a backup in case everything goes tits-up.
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Anonymous2008-09-06 10:14
install Opera
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Anonymous2008-09-06 21:47
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PROTIP: When you use Ubuntu, you're using a rebranded Debian Sid.
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Anonymous2008-09-06 22:50
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Sid has a restricted drivers manager now?
Ubanto has a gang of patchers to rival Debian's own. They aren't just slapping new logos onto things.
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Anonymous2008-09-07 1:56
Overclocking a PC is fine but don't try it with a laptop.