ay caliente – why an ultrabook is no laptop when it is hot outside

[Chupa]

EDGE keeps the coolest and wins and Waterfox (my favorite anti spy browser) is the hottest – bummer
The red curve is the temperature and the green is the processor usage.
The 3 year old HP Stream with only 2GB memory and a slowish 32GB eMMC is the winner in staying cool
All computers were tested with the newest Firefox Quantum with 2 browser tabs open and Thunderbird email running in the background.
All speed enhancements and bios speed enhancements were set to factory.
Throttle Stop was not loaded.

The last test with EDGE again shows that is still brings the temperature down but can not reach the low point of the initial test.
As a conclusion, the optimal summer ultrabook for the lap is one what has all the components in the screen (tablet style) and is sturdy connected to a good keyboard with enough weight to keep the computer from tipping over.

Any good ideas what that would be? With a 14″ screen?
Chris?
Anybody?

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1981 soldered my first Sinclair computer 1K, tapedeck * 1984 build and sold IBM clones 8Mhz, 512K, 20MB HDD * 2018 messing with ultrabooks

[Chupa]

I did another couple tests, I would love to have done them with my Jumper but I deleted all the unwanted MS apps and programs including EDGE so successful that so far non of the published ways to reinstall EDGE again worked.

So this test was done with the Thomson (Apollo Lake 3350)
On the 256GB SSD there is also no EDGE no more, but with this bios I can switch between eMMC with the factory original Windows 10 to the SSD with my modified Windows.

first test as before, room temperature 29ºC on simulated lap, see pictures above
second test, room temperature 27ºC sitting on a glass table

The processor heat difference is around 8ºC and the bottom and top hot spots stay below 40ºC on the glass table.

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1981 soldered my first Sinclair computer 1K, tapedeck * 1984 build and sold IBM clones 8Mhz, 512K, 20MB HDD * 2018 messing with ultrabooks

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I finally got myself a laptop cooler

tried a cheaper model but that was crap, with this one the PC sits on a very holey metal with a big silent fan what gets its power from the usb port but also provides one extra, so you still have the same amount of usb ports available.
Funny thing, different usb cables provide different fan speeds. I oped for the slowest speed.
The fan gets switched on via a switch and not via plug and unplug as with the cheap model I had first.
Sadly the paint is glossy and slippery from the metal, so I stuck some anti skid tape on it where the feet from different computers touch the metal.

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