[SLL] Laptop getting a bit warm

Rob Smith kormoc at gmail.com
Sun Jul 22 23:45:34 PDT 2007


On 7/22/07, Abha Harting <abhaha at gmail.com> wrote:
> I like them because I figure
> they will extend the life of the machine since heat is the enemy of
> electronic devices.

Strangely enough, Google released a paper that actually showed that
hard drives tended to last longer when running a little hot compaired
to being cooled excessively. See:

http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/18/massive-google-hard-drive-survey-turns-up-very-interesting-thing/

Just food for thought :P

~Rob



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