No more cpuspeed in F16

[Adam Williamson]

On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 21:43 +0100, drago01 wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 9:37 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 12:06 +0100, drago01 wrote:
> >> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 9:15 PM, Adam Williamson <awilliam at redhat.com> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 00:24 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Perhaps, you can file a bug report?  It seems there is a problem that
> >> >> causes your system to overheat and unless you are already that it is a
> >> >> hardware problem, it is better to get the problem fixed rather than
> >> >> workaround it.
> >> >
> >> > Well, some systems are just badly designed and won't run at full power
> >> > for extended periods without overheating. I had a laptop like that once.
> >> > My 'workaround' was to buy a cooling pad.
> >>
> >> Wouldn't it be a better fix to get to the vendor (assuming it is still
> >> under warranty) and demand either the money back or a fix?
> >> I doubt it takes that long to discover such issues so I don't get why
> >> people end up having such devices for a longer period of time.
> >
> > The vendor just tells you 'consumer laptops aren't designed to use full
> > CPU power for extended periods'. I've tried.
> 
> Huh? ... Which vendor was that? (To add to my "not buy from" list ;) )

Mine was a Lenovo (not a Thinkpad), but as Smooge says, this is pretty
much standard practice.
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