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Re: XEmacs and hot laptops


> Most of laptops I've seen have fixed speed fans, that are turned on when
> heat exceeds some predefined limit, and for some reasons on some laptops
> fan just runs "for sure" once a while.
>
> Mine laptop is set as high as 70 celcius CPU temp, so well, it get's
> hot, specially from under (Yes, you can burn your balls if your not
> careful =)
>
> Force lower clockspeed. Can be done on Intel speedstep, or AMD's
> equivalent thingy. Of course, things takes twice as longer, but hey, no
> more heat.
>
> Laptops are designed to run on higher heats, so no concern of frying.
I can confirm Jani's words - my 3 years old Lifebook calculates SETI work
units all the time, so the fan never gets stopped :-) BTW: I use cygwin to
proccess a 100 work units queue without any additional software like
SetiQueue or similar one.

-- 
Greetings

Tomasz Rojek





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