gHacks technology news » netbooks http://www.ghacks.net A technology blog covering software, mobile phones, gadgets, security, the Internet and other relevant areas. Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:55:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Acer Aspire One Fan Control http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/12/acer-aspire-one-fan-control/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/12/acer-aspire-one-fan-control/#comments Tue, 12 May 2009 11:16:08 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/12/acer-aspire-one-fan-control/ acer laptopsA friend recently contacted me telling me that the fan of his Acer Aspire One laptop made him go nuts. He felt that it was way to loud and wanted to know if there was a program to reduce the noise that the netbook makes. I quickly stumbled upon the Acer Aspire One Fan Control utility which proved to be very useful. While the software program was not able to regulate the fan speed it was able to set the temperature threshold so that the fan kicks in at a higher temperature level.

Acer Aspire One Fan Control works on computer systems running Windows XP or Windows Vista. It will place itself in the Windows system tray upon execution. A click on that icon will display a status bar containing information about the current cpu temperature and options to set the fan on and off temperatures. Finding the right settings might take some time as it largely depends on the climate but also the reliability (meaning a silent system that always crashes is not the right solution) of the computer system.

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Users who do not own an Acer Aspire One but would still like to reduce the noise their computer makes might want to read articles like Hard Drive Noise Reduction, Create Video Card Profiles To Save Power And Reduce Noise or Lower Video Card noise by reducing the fan speed.

Acer Aspire One Fan Control is a free download and should only be executed on Acer Aspire One models.

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]]> http://www.ghacks.net/2009/05/12/acer-aspire-one-fan-control/feed/ 3 Easy Peasy Optimized Ubuntu For Asus Eee PCs http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/24/easy-peasy-optimized-ubuntu-for-asus-eee-pcs/ http://www.ghacks.net/2009/01/24/easy-peasy-optimized-ubuntu-for-asus-eee-pcs/#comments Sat, 24 Jan 2009 10:57:26 +0000 Martin http://www.ghacks.net/?p=10106 Easy Peasy, which was formerly known as Ubuntu Eee, is a optimized (unofficial) version of Ubuntu for Asus Eee PCs and other netbooks. Netbooks have become very popular in the last two years which can be mainly attributed to the attractive price range and mobility.

The drawbacks of netbooks are their screen resolutions and hardware that was used to build them. Easy Peasy has been optimized for those limitations to provide the user with a better working experience.

The Linux distribution can be downloaded directly from the Easy Peasy website or by using the Bittorrent protocol. It comes with optimized software, settings and drivers.

Easy Peasy makes use of a net interface called Netbook Remix Interface that has been specifically designed for screen resolutions of netbooks.

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It does provide the means to change to regular desktop mode if that mode is preferred by the user. Easy Peasy does come with several non Open-Source software programs preinstalled such as Skype which might be controversial in the eyes of the Linux community.

While it has been designed with the EEE PCs in mind it should run fine on many other netbooks such as Acer’s Aspire One.

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