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HEL80 Heat Question
Do any of your Compal HEL 80s get fairly hot to the left of the mouse pad? Mine right now is making my wrist sweat a little..I didnt know if this was standard for this model or not? I have a 60GB 7200 hard drive and i do have AS5 compound on the cpu. Would a notebook cooling pad help this issue?
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The hd is on the right and as5 is for the cpu, which is on the left near the middle, so it might be the cpu, but the cpu is under the keyboard im pretty sure
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hmmm..bc its def hotter than the right side... right side is actually not bad at all..but the left is barely tolerable
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wiL, is this your first laptop? I don't mean to offend, I only ask because heat is usually a first time laptop user's issue.
If you have never used a laptop before you are used to the desktop (with all of its heat) on the floor, instead of the heat from the various components of a laptop that resides under your hands.
Virtually all users of the HEL80 have commented that it is one of the coolest (that is a relative term of course, but it has to be relative with a laptop...any laptop) laptops they have used.
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I guess its just that Ive never used a powerful laptop by any means that creates an abundance of heat anyway..ive owned a Sony Vaio PCG 9B5L with an AMD4 in it and an older Dell Inspiron and neither of them ever really got hot (i guess its bad to compare the HEL 80 to either one of those)....will this be something that ill get used to?
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The only 'hot spot' I found on the HEL80 is to the left of the touchpad, as well as the touchpad itself - it's normal as Donald said. The heat on the HEL80 is quite low compared to other machines.
I've never felt as if the laptop was even close to overheating - the cooling system is very good.
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good thing i didnt get the Asus Z81sp i was looking at.
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Hehe...amen brother!
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the only time i feel heat anywhere is when i'm running a game which obviously makes everything run a bit hotter but within 2/3 seconds of running the game its back to being cool:)
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As I am leaning more and more toward an HGL30 from Power Notebooks at the end of summer, this thread is music to my ears. ;) Different model, but I don't think there'd be that much difference.
C.