On Sunday 25 September 2005 10:47, Clive Menzies wrote: > I note that all Acer 64bit notebooks now ship with the Turion processor > which is designed for laptops which would suggest that there is an > inherent flaw in putting the athlon chip in laptops.
This is simply not true- there are quite a few people (myself included) running 64bit linux flavors on the Compaq Presario R3000 (mobile athlon64) series alone. I've never experienced overheating problems- and I frequently do long compiles and image/video processing where the processor and fans are peaked. > I am prepared to > try to claim Acer have sold me a laptop which is 'not fit for purpose' > but they will claim that I'm not running their official software; > however, it is worth a letter at least. Sounds like either the laptop is a lemon, or there are problems with that particular make/model. I'll let others with similar hardware chime in... > 2. is there a way, in software, to slow down the processor to make it > run cooler? You could use the cpu frequency modes in the kernel to force the processor to always run slow- kind of defeats the purpose of a fast 64-bit processor though ;-) cheers, -Ted -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]