I doubt that HP does anything about it before its to late..
I had contact with HP Care center and all they did about my problem was to update the bios, wuhu no changes at all.

But as long as HP does make a midway solution on their cooling solutions i doubt the pc’s will be anywhere near cool.

I’m pretty sure about my next buy is gonna be a macbook pro insted and buy some software i read about where you can use the trackpad as a tablet. It may not work as well as a dedicated tablet pc, but for my needs it works just fine

- Cheers

Will be interested to see how the new model performs with regard to heat.

I’m own a TX2020eo laptop.

In your article you write following:

“The heat generation on this unit is undoubtedly linked directly to the AMD Turion processor. Whilst it is a great mobile processor, it doesn’t compete with the power saving performance properties of Intel low voltage Centrino Core 2 Duo processors found in higher end Tablet PCs.”

I’m not sure i can agree on that.

When the guarantie ran out on my laptop, I decided to take it apart to find out about the heat problem.

First of all, the thermal grease is the worst crap ever. Second of all its not the CPU but the GPU which are making the extreme heat in the tx2000 series.

Instead of thermal grease they have chosen to use thermal pads on the GPU, and because of a large gap you cant fill it out with thermal grease.

Second of all HP have chosen to put 2 different metal types together to make the cooler, and thats where it fails.

I hope you understand my poor english but I’m from denmark and I’m only good at talking, not at typing.

I know this is almost a year since this article was made, but rather sooner than later. If you got any questions then contact me on my mail and I’ll try to explain.

- Theis

Regards,

Brett