I just got the new laptop as a replacement under my accidental damage protection policy, the supposedly “worry-free assurance” that wasn’t so free of care. This new laptop is replacing my 1 year old one that suffered death from a massive milk spill. I shouldn’t complain about the upgrade, because I now have a dual-core system (AMD Turion X2, not the current best-in-class Intel Core Duo), but I’m already encountering two issues.
The first, and most concerning, is that the top of the laptop, where the heels of my hands rest when I’m typing, is getting warm, I suspect from the CPU. I’m not even seriously taxing it, so both the amount of heat generated along with the location of the hot spot do not bode well.
The second problem is with the operating system. It has Windows Vista, and unfortunately my favorite firewall/antivirus software currently does not have a version for Vista. I can’t figure out how to get the pre-installed Norton Internet Security to recognize an IP range as my home network, and it doesn’t seem to want to recognize individual computers that I have put in IP addresses in the “allowed” list. In other words, I haven’t been able to connect to my home network to print or download files.
Not good…
Hopefully I’ll get this all figured out soon, but the security features of Internet Explorer are making me crazy already. I much prefer Firefox with the security plug-ins that I use.
Oh, well, it is a new computer, so that gives me at least one more year before it is obsolete and bogged down like all my other systems.
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There’s a “thing” that you can put under your laptop (something nicer than bricks) to raise it up an inch or so. The guys at work use them and they say it helps keep the platform cooler.
Dunno what it’s called.