Re: Disabling Conexant SmartAudio headphone limiter
It's usually best to do a little bit of search online to see some new laptops and see what price range you like and what features you'd like to have, then go to an actual store that has the laptops you "liked" displayed and try them out. See how much heat they kick out, how they feel, and give them a good test if possible.
When I was buying a laptop for someone a few years back, first thing I did was look at some laptops online. Then I went to the store (Micro Center) with a flash drive full of diagnostic utilities and started playing the same 1080p YouTube HD video on each laptop, then checked how hot each laptop ran and how loud it was. Ended up picking up a Compaq CQ-61, despite knowing that low-end HP/Compaq aren't exactly stellar. It's a 15.4" sub-$500 laptop ($430, to be exact, I believe), so definitely in the consumer end of the scale, though not the cheapest stuff which were $200-300 and came with single-core Celerons and similar at the time. I picked it mostly based on the price and the fact that it had probably the most powerful CPU for its price range, yet the CPU had only moderate TDP rating. It was either an AMD Athlon dual-core M340 or P340. Laptop fans were always on but very quiet and there was no heat when laptop was idle. After HD video test, the CPU temperature were fairly low (mid 40's) and CPU fan was spinning faster, but still not too loudly and there was hadly much heat coming from the exhaust grill.
That laptop is still working today even with lots of daily use and many power cycles.
It's usually best to do a little bit of search online to see some new laptops and see what price range you like and what features you'd like to have, then go to an actual store that has the laptops you "liked" displayed and try them out. See how much heat they kick out, how they feel, and give them a good test if possible.
When I was buying a laptop for someone a few years back, first thing I did was look at some laptops online. Then I went to the store (Micro Center) with a flash drive full of diagnostic utilities and started playing the same 1080p YouTube HD video on each laptop, then checked how hot each laptop ran and how loud it was. Ended up picking up a Compaq CQ-61, despite knowing that low-end HP/Compaq aren't exactly stellar. It's a 15.4" sub-$500 laptop ($430, to be exact, I believe), so definitely in the consumer end of the scale, though not the cheapest stuff which were $200-300 and came with single-core Celerons and similar at the time. I picked it mostly based on the price and the fact that it had probably the most powerful CPU for its price range, yet the CPU had only moderate TDP rating. It was either an AMD Athlon dual-core M340 or P340. Laptop fans were always on but very quiet and there was no heat when laptop was idle. After HD video test, the CPU temperature were fairly low (mid 40's) and CPU fan was spinning faster, but still not too loudly and there was hadly much heat coming from the exhaust grill.
That laptop is still working today even with lots of daily use and many power cycles.
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