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12" PB heat dissipation
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Hanul
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Feb 25, 2003, 05:49 PM
 
Today I used my 12" PB for 4 consecutive hours. It was plugged in, the batteries were charged and I installed Windows 2000 on Virtual PC 5.

The PB got very warm after a while, hard disk and SuperDrive were constantly spinning during the install process (which crashed VPC 2 times, bringing MacOS X also down). The fan was on all the time. The temperature of both palm rests reached that of a warm cup of coffee (around 35-40�C), the bottom was a little bit warmer, but still touchable. The power button was really hot (like, ouch, what is that?). The PB stood on a flat surface in an air-conditioned room.

I think that this temperature is the maximum the PB will reach during operation in a normal environment, but I don't want to know what happens, when you're outside in the park on a hot summer day using your PB on your lap...
     
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Feb 25, 2003, 07:23 PM
 
Hmm, the HD and Superdrive spinning caused VPC to crash?

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Feb 25, 2003, 08:07 PM
 
I've used my PB extensively in a heated office building and it never gets unbearably hot. I've also noticed that the power button gets a lot hotter than the rest of the machine, but good thing I don't have to touch that one too often.

I was going to say, "Maybe there's a reason why the PB was released during the winter." But forgot that it's actually summer for parts of the world right now.
     
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Mar 3, 2003, 03:46 PM
 
Originally posted by Hanul:
Today I used my 12" PB for 4 consecutive hours. It was plugged in, the batteries were charged and I installed Windows 2000 on Virtual PC 5.
How does the 12"PB handle VPC with W2K? I'm considering the same setup to run AutoCAD. Is it usable?
     
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Mar 3, 2003, 05:10 PM
 
Originally posted by retep:
How does the 12"PB handle VPC with W2K? I'm considering the same setup to run AutoCAD. Is it usable?
I installed VPC6 with XP Pro and found it totally useless. It would take over a minute just to open IE. I have 640 megs of RAM in my PB and assigned half of that to VPC.

I also have a 2.4 GH Dell, so I don't need VPC. I just wanted to play around with it.
     
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Mar 3, 2003, 05:24 PM
 
I haven't really tried XP, but W2K is actually relatively usable.
     
   
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