Re: [offtopic] Re: Hot Notebook

Rik van Riel (H.H.vanRiel@phys.uu.nl)
Wed, 15 Apr 1998 18:11:49 +0200 (MET DST)


On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, tzanger wrote:

> >It would increase power consumption and heat of some laptops. (Note
> >that they are laptops you can not hold in your hand if running at the
> >full tilt.)
>
> Hey, I have one of those! I'm using it right now, and it runs Win95... I'd
> be AFRAID to try and run a high performance OS on it... right now it's got
> enough heat problems.

Linux should run a lot cooler on your notebook, since it
halts the processor when there's nothing to be done.

Rik.
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