How do they do that?

laptops, heat, how do they last?

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I know this is probably dumb, but I've been putting my G4 PowerBook through some serious work for the past three days. I mean continuous PhotoShop batch processes, and file uploads/downloads. Three days straight, no sleep time, no reboot.

The poor thing is getting really hot, I mean REALLY hot (I've got it proped up on a metal ruler to let some air flow under it) and it hasn't missed a beat.

I'm really amazed at how it is possible at all to build a machine this small that can run this hot and still work. I'm sure that a PC would do the same thing but... WOW!

Technology is some cool stuff. Anyone else impressed that the machines we do so much with are this amazing or am I just working a little too hard this week?

[gamiziuk]

Go over to your Computer/Electronics discount store (Best Buy/Circuit City) and you will find laptop heat dissipators for sale.

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hope you are using your laptop on a table!

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[whoisgregg]

I got one of those iCurve stands for my 12" powerbook because I wanted to baby it after I'd put it through about a week of similar torture. (And this was with the processor set to "Highest" instead of the more considerate "Automatic" setting.)

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I don't even let anything power down except the hard drive, I finally shut down last night for the first time in about 2 weeks.

I noticed that the table (Yea I read that infertility thing too) was getting very hot around the machine so that's why I got the metal engineering scale (one of the triangular ones with different scales on each side) and used it to prop up the back of the machine.

I looked into one of the cooling stands, but honestly the ruler is easier to toat around and it puts the keyboard at a nice angle.

Maybe I should go for one of those USB fans that I can aim at the space under the machine.

(Ten more pages to update and I get to start redesign #2 with a different site. I hope my machine will forgive me. ;o) )