[P1] Portable Heat

[Jeremy Kezer]

>Video International wrote the following:
>
>>  I too, am troubled by the heat issues of the 12". I'm currently
>>  debating on whether to get a 12" G4 iBook or the PowerBook 12". I had
>>  thought though that the extreme heat problem was limited to the 12" PB
>>  (AKA The Ouch Book).
>
>The PowerBook series is known to be considerably hotter than the iBook
>series (G3). The G4 series iBooks may well be in the middle of this range of
>heat due to the processor.

 From the user-submitted results I'm seeing with ThermographX, the 
iBook G4 is just as hot internally as the 12" PowerBook G4 
(temperatures peaking at around 150F).  Whether this translates into 
as hot a user experience handling the case, I don't know.  It may be 
that the metal case of the PowerBooks transfers heat more easily; My 
wife's 12" PowerBook does get warm after extended use but the fan 
does a great job of keeping it tolerable.

The next version of ThermographX (1.1; in beta testing now) will have 
the consolidated user-submitted results built in.  If you've got a 
new iBook G4, I'd love it if you could run ThermographX and submit 
your results to add to the data pool!

<http://www.kezer.net/thermographx.html>


Jeremy


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