Old pc faster than ecent

[michaelpo at myjaring.net]

how do you tell the temperature or:
cpu
harddisk
ram
etc
etc




Brad Johnson wrote:
>>> Personally, I don't know why anyone would buy a laptop WITHOUT a 7200RPM
>>> HDD.
>> Not to intrude here, however battery life and heat are two major 
>> reasons for staying away from 7200rpm drives in laptops...
>>
> 
> You bring up a good point. There will be more heat from a 7200RPM drive.
> If your laptop is badly built and has just enough cooling power and
> battery life to handle it's stock equipment, you may have troubles.
> 
> On the other hand. Some laptops can handle a 7200RPM drive just fine. My
> IBM T42 Laptop has a 1.7GHZ processor, 15" screen, 7200RPM HDD (stock),
> 1GB RAM and my battery life is over 2 hours. My HDD temp is 33 C which
> is below body temperature and sensors-applet shows the cooling fans even
> turn off at times. 
> 
> The result is a laptop that feels like a desktop. At work I have a Dell
> laptop with a 2Ghz processor, 512MB RAM and a 5400RPM HDD. The IBM walks
> all over the Dell simply because of HDD speed.
> 
> Brad
> 
>