Hi Orin, Another thought, do you never hear the fan come on? On my laptop I can hear the fan kick in when the processor loads (and this is more likely to happen when i hear "Safari, busy", stream a video in the browser, load up large PDF files in the inline browser display instead of downloading them an using Preview, etc). You might want to make sure that the fan does turn on some time. On external hard drives one of the sources of failure is when the power supply that drives the fans cuts out. If they're separately replaced the drives usually stay good.
Cheers, Esther >On 13-Jun-08, at 7:11 AM, David Poehlman wrote: > >> oh, it has a fan. make sure it has a lot of clearance overhead and >> behind. >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Orin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: "General discussions on all topics relating to the use of Mac OS >> X by >> theblind" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 5:23 AM >> Subject: iMac roasting normal behavier? >> >> >> Hey all, >> >> Just wondering, although my iMac is very quiet I really can't hear it, >> it's getting utterally hot, should it? I mean, this is a desktop, and >> I keep it on, and I just don't want it to melt away. Shouldn't this >> thing have a fan in it to keep it cool? >> I'm currently listening to 06. Soldiers Of The Wasteland by >> DragonForce on the album Sonic Firestorm and is currently Paused. >> >> Orin
