Are laptops designed to break?
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Are laptops designed to break?
In the same fashion as my Wii (mentioned in this thread), my brother's laptop kept randomly turning off today. Not because the fan was not working, but because of this:
The fan blows air out the bottom of the laptop.
Just think, how would you place your laptop while working on it? On a table surface?
It's as if laptops are designed to stand on their own air outtake. Well, this one is certainly designed to overheat.
I'll just put a few block around each corner, so that air can escape whenever I have it on a table. And when I'm sitting with it on my lap, I'll just have my knees more to the right, so they aren't blocking the place where air escapes. I'll also advise my brother to do so whenever he's using it.
But seriously, if other laptops are designed like this, that's really, really bad.
The fan blows air out the bottom of the laptop.
Just think, how would you place your laptop while working on it? On a table surface?
It's as if laptops are designed to stand on their own air outtake. Well, this one is certainly designed to overheat.
I'll just put a few block around each corner, so that air can escape whenever I have it on a table. And when I'm sitting with it on my lap, I'll just have my knees more to the right, so they aren't blocking the place where air escapes. I'll also advise my brother to do so whenever he's using it.
But seriously, if other laptops are designed like this, that's really, really bad.
Well, laptops are getting thinner, so you wouldn't be able to put the fan hole on the side or at the back. I think they should make the base thinker, so that a cooling fan can blow air out the back of the laptop.
I'd much rather have a laptop that looks pig-ugly, than a laptop that isn't very well designed and could break because of how it's designed.
I'd much rather have a laptop that looks pig-ugly, than a laptop that isn't very well designed and could break because of how it's designed.
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Fans now come on the bottom and with a small exit to the back, so that the fan works even if it's sitting on a surface.
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The newer ones don't really need the fans much when on battery. You have to be gaming on battery on mine to get the fan to come on at all.
What I do when I have it on my lap is favor the leftside with my legs, which leaves enough on the right for the air to get through the fan.
If you have one of the PIV/Athlon XP laptops with multiple fans, get a laptop pad.
What I do when I have it on my lap is favor the leftside with my legs, which leaves enough on the right for the air to get through the fan.
If you have one of the PIV/Athlon XP laptops with multiple fans, get a laptop pad.
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Me, i think laptops are a great idea for computing on the go.Franky wrote:Are laptops designed to break?
But i would never recomend, someone setting up a laptop, as their main computer.... It's just something about them i don't trust
Hardware means nothing if you don't have good software.
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Like most computers, they're generally OK as long as you spend a bit on them. if you get a $300 computer or $500 laptop, you're going to get crap that'll break real quick, excepting the Asus eee but it's not like they're trying to cut corners there, it's supposed to be a low power laptop. Don't get the most expensive computers, though, as they'll be a ripoff and gaming laptops are just as bad as the poorly designed crappy ones. And gaming desktops you're much better off assembling yourself. Alienware/Dell XPS is very pricey.
I've heard very good things about Wired2Fire.And gaming desktops you're much better off assembling yourself. Alienware/Dell XPS is very pricey.
They don't make it all fancy and put unwanted software on your drive, that ultimately slows it down. They just assemble the PC, and install the OS. They install all the drivers, and fine tune the PC to make the most out of it (the best bios settings, etc) (most OEM's don't do this, hence they are slower because they are badly set up). There's even the option to have components overclocked.
They do all the legwork for you. And the labour is very cheap, or so I hear.
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and as far as the shit goes (when it comes to software) you can just reinstall windows, the drivers, and included windows updates.
that said, personally I use an aluminum laptop pad with two fans under it.
that said, personally I use an aluminum laptop pad with two fans under it.
<Nach> so why don't the two of you get your own room and leave us alone with this stupidity of yours?
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