[P1] heat

[Brian Pearce]

> Wazzup with those reports?

I find you have to take anecdotal reports like this with a very large 
grain of salt; some people have a tendancy to overreact (thus reports 
that no Firewire drives were safe from catastrophic problems with 10.3, 
which wasn't true at all), and, like the old saying goes, your milage 
may vary.

In this case, it's difficult to say without knowing exactly *what* the 
computers do all day long. If there's lots of disc access or a CD or 
DVD in the drive, there's bound to be considerably more heat than if 
the processor is just going about its' business.

The new G4 iBooks also have the same new technology that's been 
included with the G5 and new PowerBook models, the ability to 
automatically slow down the processor and main system bus when 
computational demands don't require full performance, thereby reducing 
power consumption. (The G5 reduces power to reduce heat; the portables 
do it mostly to extend battery life, though it also reduces the heat.) 
So the amount of heat the iBook generates depends even more on what the 
computer is doing.

BRIAN/bpearce at cloud9.net