Ubuntu Gutsy fried my laptop!
Monday, November 12. 2007

Ubuntu Gutsy fried my laptop!
So I finally got around to upgrading to Gutsy the other day, only to return from a meeting to find I could barbecue my lunch on my ThinkPad.

To give you an idea, the following is the starting temperature of my laptop.
starting temperature




And this is the temperature after 15 minutes of usage under the old kernel.
15 minutes under the old kernel





After only 10 minutes light usage under Gutsy the temperature has hit a testicle frying 71 degrees and climbing fast!
10 minutes under Gutsy!





5 minutes later ...
Posted by Christian in geek at 10:47 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)
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serves you right for installing that crap distro.
#1 Lurker on 2007-11-12 23:13 (Reply)
Hmmm - weren't running Eclipse at the time perhaps ;-)
#2 Ben Cornwell (Homepage) on 2007-11-16 22:33 (Reply)

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