[iBook] iBook runs VERY hot

[Scott Warren]

I have had a few laptops get "smoking hot" were 1 actually produced 
smoke.  Turned out to be a short in the battery charger inside the 
laptop.  Only seemed to happen every 3 times I powered it up until I 
could not power it up any more.  Where do you feel the heat?  Back 
right is where the charger stuff is and if that gets hot, take it in 
immediately.  Front left is the hard drive and I have noticed on a 
number of iBooks where that gets "very warm" (can put your hand on it 
with out it hurting) and had 1 or 2 where its "hot".  Heat there could 
result in hard drive failure or the repair people swapping our your 
hard drive so back up your stuff.

Heat is bad for computers....

On Feb 16, 2005, at 8:19 AM, Jean-Paul Thuot wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I recently bought my wife a G4 1Ghz 12" iBook.  Today she brought it
> to me with a couple of questions regarding unrelated matters.  As I
> held it in my hand I noticed that it was SMOKING hot underneath.
>
> Is this normal?  My G3 iBook has been running all day, same as hers,
> and when I picked mine up for comparison it was obvious that her book
> is much hotter.
>
> Thanks for any perspective on this.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jean-Paul
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