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[zombie urist]

I've already been told that it's Win8, with pen support and at least 1 USB 3.0. That's...really all I know. Oh, and it's 10.1" and to compete with The New iPad.

How much will it cost?

[MaximumZero]

Probably comparable to whatever the new ipad's cost is at the time of launch. The windows rep told me that the win8 launch is probably happening in october.

[white_darkness]

I'll just mourn HP giving up on webOS.  I thought that looked hot.

[MaximumZero]

I'm right there with you, man.

[Tellemurius]

OEM heatsinks. These things are just plain worthless. Loud, usually huge and don't even do the job well. Don't even think about overclocking with these things on as you won't get far.


Next in line is Thermal Compounds and heat issues. all tech manufacturers are known to provide low grade paste anyone ever seen, worse was a ps3 i was fixing the shit was everywhere. Its cheap quality these machines can't handle well. Its good for those 2+ years intense heat zones to pop open the case and replace the thermal compound and (if you want) theheatsink.

For the best paste to go around is bar none the Arctic Silver 5 paste. This stuff been around for a while and has never failed anyone (unless you jack up the application process) and for its low cost this is indeed a necessary purchase with anyone having cooling issues.

For my opinion Arctic Cooling MX-4 does the same job without the conductive component that comes with silver.

[penguinofhonor]

Okay so anyway I dismantled the bottom of my computer a while ago to check out the hard drive. Basically I want to get another hard drive, but I also want to make sure I get one that's compatible with my computer.

1. I removed everything I could, naturally. Bottom-left is where the battery goes, middle-left is where the second hard drive would go, bottom middle is where the first hard drive is now, and middle is... I don't know what's there.

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2. Closer picture of the current hard drive plugged in.

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3. This is where you put another hard drive!

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4. Naturally I took the hard drive out, because there were no chances of me dropping it and ruining my life or anything like that.

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5. Okay so I'm pretty sure this is the important stuff when it comes to what hard drives can fit into my computer. The first picture is a closeup of the plugs on the hard drive itself, the second is a closeup of where they go in the computer, and the third is the hard drive plugged back in. Note that the littler plug on the right side of the hard drive doesn't actually plug into the computer. Still works fine, though.

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Jeez those pictures are huge mostly. Uh.

So anyways, I'm looking at this one. Advice is welcome before I drop over a hundred of my parents' birthday bucks on it.

edit: smallerized all the pictures

[Tellemurius]

Use the solid state for OS and some games and the old HD for storage. The speeds will be crazy and will boot fast. That black chip next to the ram is your wifi adapter in case yours fries it can be replaced. Those extra pins on the right side of the HD is jumper pins, its used for diagnostic stuff now but in the old days it determines whether it was a primary or slave drive and other stuff i don't remember.

[penguinofhonor]

Use the solid state for OS and some games and the old HD for storage. The speeds will be crazy and will boot fast.

These were my plans, yeah. I was just wondering if the solid state drive would work in my computer. When I mentioned it in the rage thread a while back, I think someone mentioned how some hookups or something might be necessary that I might not have easy access to depending on how my laptop was set up.

[Tellemurius]

Use the solid state for OS and some games and the old HD for storage. The speeds will be crazy and will boot fast.

These were my plans, yeah. I was just wondering if the solid state drive would work in my computer. When I mentioned it in the rage thread a while back, I think someone mentioned how some hookups or something might be necessary that I might not have easy access to depending on how my laptop was set up.

The only thing that would worry about the SSD would be the OS as XP can't see them i believe and vista does not have optimization TRIM standards. In all they are using the same interfaces as 2.5 hard drives are (unless you got your hands on a mSATA but different story) and will work the moment you put them in.

[Thief^]

In simple: Yes that drive should work. It's the right connection, and right width (and implicitly the right length). Thickness is the only other question, and you should be fine there.

[penguinofhonor]

Okay, sweet. I'll probably own this drive by next week, and then I can start whining about not knowing how to move my OS.

[Tellemurius]

Okay, sweet. I'll probably own this drive by next week, and then I can start whining about not knowing how to move my OS.

Don't move you would have to install a new OS on it as the old one isn't configured for a SSD (has to be done at the installation.

[penguinofhonor]

Oh. Uh. Didn't know I'd have to do that. Well it looks like I'm going to need a bit more tutoring than I thought.

[Tellemurius]

Oh. Uh. Didn't know I'd have to do that. Well it looks like I'm going to need a bit more tutoring than I thought.

You will need a windows 7 install disc and point it to the SSD
*WARNING*
DO NOT TELL MICROSOFT ITS A NEW HARD DRIVE, THEY WILL NOT ACTIVATE IT
when you activate the code, call up microsoft and ask them to reactivate it, say you had to do a complete format on the drive so you don't have the original recovery partition anymore.

[Truean]

Question:

I am not at all worried about my laptop overheating and have no reason to think it would.

However, since I have a fan blowing on me in my office, I was wondering if it would be helpful to have the breeze on my computer as well. If so, should I blow the breeze from the fan on the heat sink, or would that impede the device's functioning? If so, would having the breeze upon another part of the computer be better.

[This seemed in line with the thread's title=]