Mini-Notebooks and Heat

Mini-notebooks / Sub-notebooks / netbooks - whatever you want to call them, they are hot right now. Turns out it’s not just sales and consumer interest that make them hot - they are also literally hot.

Using a Dell Latitude D630 as a baseline comparison, Joanna Stern over at LAPTOP Magazine took a look at the heat generated by the following ultraportable laptops:
- Asus Eee PC (7″, Intel)
- Everex CloudBook (7″, VIA)
- Asus Eee PC 900 (8.9″, Intel)
- HP 2133 Mini-Note (8.9″, VIA)

Temperature readings were taken on the underside, on the keyboard, and on the touchpads, under various loads (but using the same usage patterns).

The HP 2133 Mini-Note fared the worst with a 114 degrees Fahrenheit reading on the underside near the battery, however it fared better in the keyboard and touchpad tests.

Read: LAPTOP Magazine