Friday, June 18, 2010

Re: [BLUG] Looking for a netbook

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 07:43:18PM GMT, Simón Ruiz [simon.a.ruiz@gmail.com] said the following:
>
> FWIW, the SSD is what *makes* it a netbook for me; the fact I can
> throw it around with impunity, and not have to worry about it
> overheating if I place it in a non-ventilated area.

Um, yeah ya do. Its true that hard drives are usually the first thing
to fail under thermal load, CPUs are probably the second.

Electronics (all electronics) create heat as part of their operation
and often need to have some ventilation or cooling in order to operate
properly.


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Mark Krenz
Bloomington Linux Users Group
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