hot laptop

[Polremy]

mine seems to be quite hot! is this normal.

it is a newish mac.

[Kevinmc]

They get extremely hot and will shut down if you use them on your lap, thereby blocking the ventilation - as I had to explain to my daughter when hers did precisely that

[JMB]

My Mac gets quite hot, especially when the weather is hot.  I think this is normal.

However, I once left my mac turned on in a rucksack in summer and it got very hot indeed - caused some problems with normal running of the machine.  

[Mr Coeur de Lion]

[quote user="Kevinmc"]They get extremely hot and will shut down if you use them on your lap, thereby blocking the ventilation - as I had to explain to my daughter when hers did precisely that[/quote]

Which is exactly the reason why they officially have not been called laptops for years, with the term notebook now used.

I have put those little rubber sticky feet things on under my laptop (you know, the sort of things used under chairs to stop them scratching floor surfaces etc). This raises the "notebook" up a little more, thereby increasing the airflow out of it. Surprised that the manufacturers have never thought of doing something like that, but there you go. I have less and less faith in designers as the days pass....

[Bugsy]

Get one of THESE, brilliant

Gary

[Baz]

You may be interested in this model, look at the video presentation and  try out for 30 days and return for refund if not happy. QVC will send most items to France.

http://www.qvcuk.com/ukqic/qvcapp.aspx/app.detail/params.item.555334/walk.yah.UKEL~UK16

Baz

[dave21478]

If I use my laptop on my lap, I have to have it sitting just right so the vents for the cooling fan are hanging out past my leg. Mustnt press Enter too hard or the thing will flip over onto the floor!

Anyway, its getting on a bit, so I took the back off and cleaned out all the accumulated fluff that was in the heatsink and fan blades, which made a noticeable difference.

 

[AnOther]

I know diddly squat about Macs but as far as Intel and AMD machines running XP go there is free utility HERE which reduces the CPU speed when on battery which obviously will also reduce power dissipation and thus heat, not to mention making the battery last longer [:)]

There is no guarantee that it will work universally or on a MAC but nothing to be lost by trying it. From memory I think if it isn't compatible it will say so when you try to install it. 

[Pierre ZFP]

Stands a good chance of working as Macs use Intel chips anyway these days.

One thing to avoid at all costs is to use a laptop when it is resting on a blanket or a carpet.  I've lost count of the laptops I've had to open up and hoover out fluff because they were overheating.

[bmt]

[quote user="Pierre ZFP"]Stands a good chance of working as Macs use Intel chips anyway these days.[/quote]

It's a Windows XP application.

[Pierre ZFP]

So it might work in Windoze emulation mode?  If not, bound to be a Mac version somewhere

[Jonzjob]

I use a totally passive method for cooling and jacking up the back of this laptop. It's called "French Women Don't Get Fat " by Mirille Guillano. As a book it is a bucket load of pony poo, but it does a good job for the laptop [8-|][8-|][I] !

There must be a LOAD of fat women that speak VERY good French that are not French [8-)]?

[Polremy]

i seem to remember someone mentioning that book.

he/she had browsed it in an airport shop, along with another one called something like "Why japanese women don't get fat"

he/she said dont bother to buy either of them because the summary will do.

book 1: portion control

book 2: portion control and bean sprouts!

thanks for the advice everyone.

am reassured anyway that the heat is normal and not my computer about to blow up (guarantee runs out in a couple of weeks!)

[Anton Redman]

" (guarantee runs out in a couple of weeks!) "

You clearly have failed to realised guarantee took on a new meaning since 1999 . It now means the apparatus is guaranteed to break down between two and four weeks of the end of the guarantee period.

[Callie]

Glad to find so many Mac users.  [8-|]

Have you ever noticed that we rave about our Macs - and have you ever heard anyone say "oooooh, I just LOVE my PC" ?????

Interestingly, there are times when my iBook gets hot but not so that I have ever had to rest it on anything.  The ventilation is at the back by the lid hinge.  It might depend on the model.

[AnOther]

[quote user="Callie"]have you ever heard anyone say "oooooh, I just LOVE my PC" ?????[/quote]oooooh, I just LOVE my PC, there you go.

PC users outnumber Mac by many thousands to one and don't feel the need to evangelise [;-)]

[Pierre ZFP]

Exactly, when one has made the right choice, it isn't necessary to keep bringing it to the attention of the less informed [6]

[JMB]

Ernie, many is the time I have said or heard others say OOOH I HATE THIS PC, but you never hear Mac users saying that about their machines, and you certainly wouldn;t hear it from me :-)

[Jonzjob]

Do I detect that we have gone off of the subject of "Hot Laptop" here folks??[:-))]

[Bugsy]

You know what its like John, give anyone with a Mac half a chance and they will be in there like a shot.

[:D][:D][:D]

Gary....................... PC owner who likes XP........................ [:D]

[JMB]

John, you are absolutely right.  So my parting shot is that Macs are quite clearly cooler than  PCs.  ;-)

[AnOther]

Point proven I think, the tiniest whiff of criticism and the Mac brigade join forces to rally to it's defence - anybody else appreciate the irony, and predictability [:P]

[Polremy]

Seem to have started something here.

I only mentioned that it was a mac in my opening post just in case that had a bearing on it getting hot!

but now that you come to mention it, macs are great aren't they!!

they never get viruses.

and so reliable.

my original one in bright green, purchased last century, is still going strong.

[Mr Coeur de Lion]

Mac v PC is like the old VHS v Betamax argument. Like Macs, Betamax was clearly the better system, but like PCs, VHS got all the proper marketing and became the standard. I used to use a mac at work over 10 years ago, and its interface was years ahead of Windows.

[Albert the InfoGipsy]

And anybody who ever used an Amiga seriously knows that for the time its interface wiped the floor with either Mac (I've had one for several years and I've trained on them) or PC (I've earned my living on them for years).

Unfortunately the whole marketing drive for the Amiga positioned it as a games machine and the lack of a decent set of office (small 'o') software relegated it to niche applications.

As for the current UI, I find the fact that you can only resize a Mac window by grabbing the bottom right-hand corner frankly laughable.