Having bought the new Dell Studio XPS 16, laptop, which overheats like hell (for whatever reason, only god knows), I had to find a solution to this heating problem.
I was looking at The IT Depot website, when I found the following laptop cooling pads:
1) Belkin (F5L001 and F5L001-BLK -without hubs, F5L025qe - with hubs)
2) Targus (AWE12AP - with hubs and two fans)
3) Cooler Master (Notepal Infinite - with hubs, Notepal X1 - without hubs)
After much consideration and being tempted to buy Belkin, I finally settled for the Cooler Master Notepal X1. Things that influenced my decision
i) Mine is a 16" laptop. The belkin coolers looked rather small, though they would easily fit inside a laptop bag.
ii) It had varying speed fan.
iii) Belkin was more portable, but then I don't plan to carry around my laptop and the cooler. For people considering to do so, I would suggest Belkin as they are sleeker.
iv) I could have easily paid slightly more for the ones which had USB hubs, but I reckon I won't require 4 more USB ports when I already have 3 on my notebook.
There were laptop stands by Allsop, which really really sucked. Who in their right mind would want to buy them ?
Saturday, August 15, 2009
Friday, August 14, 2009
Transferring Files over Ethernet
Here's the deal. I wanted to transfer about 25GB of data from one laptop to another.
One of the laptops is an HP Pavillion dv2000 and the other is a DELL Studio XPS 16"
Both computers are running Vista and I connected the two laptops with a CAT 5E patch cable. (length 1 m)
The files are getting transferred at ~ 375 KB/sec which is really really slow.
I checked the network cards on both the machines and they are as following
1) HP pavillion dv2000 - Marvell Yukon 88E8039 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Connection
2) Dell Studio XPS 16" - Broadcom Netlink Gigabit Ethernet
I am unable to understand as to why the transfer is so slow. I would have expected much faster transfer rates.
Madly googling to try and find out why, but most people who are faced with this problem are using some sort of router or another, which I am not.
Oh and btw, Windows Vista sucks!! Just waiting to get my free upgrade to Windows 7
One of the laptops is an HP Pavillion dv2000 and the other is a DELL Studio XPS 16"
Both computers are running Vista and I connected the two laptops with a CAT 5E patch cable. (length 1 m)
The files are getting transferred at ~ 375 KB/sec which is really really slow.
I checked the network cards on both the machines and they are as following
1) HP pavillion dv2000 - Marvell Yukon 88E8039 PCI-E Fast Ethernet Connection
2) Dell Studio XPS 16" - Broadcom Netlink Gigabit Ethernet
I am unable to understand as to why the transfer is so slow. I would have expected much faster transfer rates.
Madly googling to try and find out why, but most people who are faced with this problem are using some sort of router or another, which I am not.
Oh and btw, Windows Vista sucks!! Just waiting to get my free upgrade to Windows 7
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