Wanted to make usable our 3 yr old HP Pavilion DV4T laptop. The laptop had issues of over heating up and was highly noisy (fan was continuously running). Tried out options suggested online,
- Clean the fan and heat sink – Trust me you literally have to disassemble the complete laptop to clean the fan
- Update the BIOS
Nothing helped. Someone suggested that disabling windows services may help reducing the overheating effect. Struck with an idea and thought of loading Chrome OS. Imagined it would boot is 7 secs 🙂 It does, but not on a HP Pavilion DV4T laptop (actual 65 secs) but on hardware designed for them. Chrome OS had another issue, it had to boot from USB. There are options to install on hard drive but from what I understood from searching thru google was they cannot double boot with Windows OS. First used vanilla build and was unsuccessful connecting wireless. Then i recognized there is a lime build and it worked well. However I did not like the USB issue. Tried several OS xPUD (it was the fastest of all), Joli Cloud, Splashtop OS ….
Finally settled down to Joli OS. The good thing about this OS is the overheating issue reduced drastically and fan noise disappeared. It looks good too..
Update (Dec 2013): After trying several OS settled for Ubuntu and have been using it for a year. Elementary OS has a beautiful interface and is built using Ubuntu.
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