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Date:      Tue, 27 Sep 2022 01:37:40 -0700
From:      David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com>
To:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Heating issues with FreeBSD on laptop
Message-ID:  <20c37342-e93e-2629-e09f-feb39ded95e2@holgerdanske.com>
In-Reply-To: <R7ZUIR.R00PYTBJHUMA3@gmail.com>
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On 9/26/22 09:39, Saniya Maheshwari wrote:
 > I just installed FreeBSD on my laptop, and everything went smoothly,
 > except one thing that my laptop seems to be a little warm and noisy (due
 > to the fans) even when it's idle.


On 9/27/22 00:29, Saniya Maheshwari wrote:
 >
 >> What make and model laptop?
 >
 > Dell Inspiron 15 7510.
 >
 >> What version of FreeBSD?
 >
 > 13.1-RELEASE.


On 9/27/22 00:52, Saniya Maheshwari wrote:
> ... this laptop is new and I have dual booted it ...


That is a higher end Dell, so it should have Windows 10 or 11 
Professional and a Core processor that supports virtualization (?).  If 
so, the easy answer is to install a hypervisor, create a virtual 
machine, and install FreeBSD into the virtual machine.


David



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