Always a possibility.

You can take the CPU out and put a new one in, but it's not a trivial matter. You'd have to take the whole thing apart.

This is a weird problem to suddenly start having in sleep mode. I've not heard of it before. Are you sure it's going into sleep mode? Does the whole thing power down and the fans stop whirring? I've had laptops that don't then when you take them back out of the bag they're hot. Are you just leaving it on a desk or putting it in a bag?

I don't understand why it would function fine in normal use then overheat in (proper) sleep. In sleep mode does the case feel hot to the touch?

Sounds like some sort of mis configuration somewhere rather than hardware. Might be worth taking it into to a repair shop and asking them before doing anything drastic like buying and fitting a new CPU.

Defo in sleep mode. Fans stop, and (normally) a quick tap or mouse move and it goes back into life.

This is a desktop PC, so it's not going into bags or anything. It's sitting on a desk, next to a window, but out of the sun.

I'm catching up with my repair shop (good mate of mine) for a bbq soon anyway, may well ask.

Nice.

FYI, for future reference: Any time you ask a question like "have you tried. . .?" and the option is hidden a few sub windows in, you can take it as read that the answer is no 99.9999% of the time.

Well, that's me with Win8 as my main system now. Good points, bad points. I'll save full judgement until if had time to play with it properly. Gotta ask if that section where you can change border sizes on windows and stuff pike that is still available anywhere, I kinda missed Vista (intentionally) and 7 ( cause work gave me a Mac).

They were in 7.

Well, if you remember when less drunk, let me know.

My days of poking about in the registry - unless I've been told exactly what to change or I've got no choice - are behind me. IT can suck my arse.

As a reminder the £24.99 upgrade offer expires at the end of this month. I can't find what price it will jump to but in the US it's going from $39.99 to $199.99 for the Pro version or $119.99 for the ordinary one.

So, if you were planning to upgrade at some point, then doing it before the 31st, or even just buying the licence and keeping but not installing it, would be financially prudent.

I've installed this app on my nexus and a client on a win8 box called splashtop. I usually refuse third party remote desktop apps unless there's a vpn, al la citrix involved. But this thing includes remote win8 gestures. It's a bit laggy atm but my PS3 is on the download and the win8 box itself has remote connections open to uni and is streaming musak from google.

It's really quite swell to use despite the lag.

Only critism is the local screen is unlocked whilst I use it remotely- not worked out if I can put it in a lock screen on locally while I remote in.

Worth a look at least. I leave my office a lot and am having to logon to various machine to show people stuff on my desktop which is a bit of a dance at times, especially with the uni machines that're bonded to the domain.

Thought it was worth mentioning and I hadn't heard of it before...

Is this any good

http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/05/engadget-laptop-buyers-guide-winter-2013/

It's written for a US market, but I'd guess almost all of them are available here as well.

http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/nav/pb/05/processor/intelcorei5/type/laptops/0?&isort=price rev

Some OK looking i5s there.

I'm wondering if these touchscreen/tablet/laptop combos allow you to hook up the keyboard part to other screens.

Thinking I'd like to keep my big monitor for the time being, but have the option to hook up my keyboard to another screen.

Actually, I'm not thinking this through, am I? I take it the guts of the machine have to be in the screen part, otherwise it can't work as a tablet. durr.

Facewon wrote:

I'm wondering if these touchscreen/tablet/laptop combos allow you to hook up the keyboard part to other screens. Thinking I'd like to keep my big monitor for the time being, but have the option to hook up my keyboard to another screen. Actually, I'm not thinking this through, am I? I take it the guts of the machine have to be in the screen part, otherwise it can't work as a tablet. durr.

There is an app called Synergy+ that worked crossplatform. As you motioned your mouse off the side it would go on to the next (you set in an array/order) and the keyboard would then focus on that machine. I dunno if it's made the whole android / RT leap.

Beano is apparently on a slightly incoherent posting spree. Seems harmless, but I don't undertand half of what he's saying at the moment.

Facewon wrote:

Beano is apparently on a slightly incoherent posting spree. Seems harmless, but I don't undertand half of what he's saying at the moment.

No the pope stuff was on my mind. I hadn't said it let alone typed it. The Jonnies thing I meant.

Keeping up cross-thread face, good man you're on a reading spree  

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