Wednesday, July 13, 2011

Overheating Laptop

I would think this is a useless post but hopefully will remind me in the future of the weird things I have done…. While trying to work and at the same time some other things in mind.

Have you ever had your laptop overheat inside a bag? Did it still work? Apparently I had done so a lot more than other people I can think of. The last time was on the flight to London where I actually thought the laptop was turned off but apparently windows decided to restart itself after I uninstalled some Microsoft program I installed the night before. I noticed it on the plane when I decided to work a little and retried my bag which was red hot. I could hardly grab the laptop since it was almost boiling hot and when I opened it saw it was on and with only 30% remaining on the battery which usually last 6 hours. I guess the past hour it was on and overheating it must have the fans working like crazy trying to cool it.

A nice feature would be a laptop that shuts itself down when it goes too hot inside a bag. Does anyone know of such?

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Were you able to find a laptop that meets this criterion? Since you mentioned that you’ve let your laptop overheat many times already, have you noticed its battery life failing? Even with fans working overtime, overheating is still a risk that can cause serious problems in your laptop and its battery. It might even catch fire in the future.


Regards,
Lakendra Wiltse

Ian Vernon said...

Thanks Lakendra. I actually went to get a MacBook Air, and it is working like a well oiled machine. No issues, no problems, no dramas just plain sailing.