[LAU] Laptop specs

[Dave Phillips]

laurence alexander wrote:
> I use Ubunutu Studio for audio - Rosegarden, Hydrogen, AMSynth, Alsamodular synth, audacity, time machine, zynaddsynth etc - on an 8 year old laptop. I am having overheating problems and want to upgrade to a new machine. Any advice for minimum specs to be looking outfor. E.g. is a 7200rpm hard drive necessary? Should I go for dual core? Trying to spend around £300. Thanks
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Interesting that you're having problems with overheating. Is ACPI 
enabled on your system ? Which Ubuntu are you using ? IIRC there's much 
better temperature control in recent releases. Alas, it screws up other 
things on my system, so I disabled it and have to avoid using 
power-hungry apps for very long. :(

Also, what CPU is in your laptop ?

Best,

dp