>From my own pacticl experience I can tell you at CPU is the primary cause of heat. WiFi, charging batteries, and burning discs are probably the next group. Not blocking the exhaust port is probably the easiest way to keep it from overheating. not covering the keyboard (keep the display up, even if your using external) also helps. So, if you really want to test it, run the folding, cover the keyboard and exhaust, and do it on a dead battery so it charges the battery, and share the DVD player, and backup a movie remotely over the wifi.
Dont forget to setup a camcorder for your next youtube epic. Jamie On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 07:27:33PM -0700, Ben Barrett wrote: > network, sound, and so forth. It would be fun to see full-on tests on all > I/O, > including card readers, USB/1394, wifi&BT, and docking bay, just to > see what happens... > > ben > > > On 3/26/07, Jim K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I came across the subject of testing laptop coolers recently. I have a > >question for those who have done gentoo installs. > >Would install gentoo linux from source code be a good test of the > >effectiveness of a laptop cooler? This I assume should only be done when > >the test system can be attended throughout the install. Whether correct > >or not, I have heard that this could cause a laptop to catch fire > >because of the heavy load on the system. > >Jim K > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > euglug@euglug.org > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list euglug@euglug.org http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
