I'm writing this from my Dell Vostro 3350. A 13" core i5 laptop that used to have Windows 7 pro installed. While using Windows the cooling fan would almost never come on during normal browsing (firefox) with about 5-10 applications like Thunderbird, Office, Putty, Skype, etc running in the background.
Now, II have Ubuntu 12.04 installed on this machine, because I used to love Ubuntu (haven't really used in about two-three years due to needing software like Autocad and the likes). Now, the cooling fan is almost constantly on while doing almost nothing at all. I can see my CPU frequency boosted to the max a lot of the time.
For example: when I watch a YouTube video in full screen, it uses an extraordinary amount of CPU power so the fan needs to work it's *** of to keep my laptop at a comfortable temperature.
Since when is Ubuntu this CPU-heavy? It didn't use to be like this, if my memory serves me correct. Is there anything I can do to help things? I hate fan noise, so the situation as it is right now is quite unacceptable for me...
Thanks to anyone who replies.
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