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From: Wes Groleau on 8 May 2010 11:18
Since the screen/pad replaces the keyboard/top panel, where did they put
the power button?

My Macbook gets quite hot underneath in the back left, near where the
plug connects (but it does it whether or not plugged in). Is that
normal for a Macbook? It's worse in active use than when on but fairly
idle. Since modbook has more electronics going (especially if GPS is
there, too), is it worse about heat?

Are those goofy-looking cooling pads any good? The thing that looks
like a pillow with fans in it.

Did you convert a Macbook with great anticipation and then find out it
wasn't such a great deal after all? Did you wish you had waited for an
iPad, or are there Modbook features that multi-touch can't compensate for?

Are there any spots on the Modbook that are as breakage-prone as the
edges of the Macbook keyboard panel?

--
Wes Groleau

"Ideas are more powerful than guns,
We would not let our enemies have guns;
why should we let them have ideas?"
-- Jozef Stalin
From: Timothy Mathews on 8 May 2010 14:24
On 2010-05-08 12:18:53 -0300, Wes Groleau said:

> Since the screen/pad replaces the keyboard/top panel, where did they
> put the power button?
>
> My Macbook gets quite hot underneath in the back left, near where the
> plug connects (but it does it whether or not plugged in). Is that
> normal for a Macbook? It's worse in active use than when on but fairly
> idle. Since modbook has more electronics going (especially if GPS is
> there, too), is it worse about heat?
>

The aluminum case is part of the heat dissipation so when the system is
running, it's producing more heat...perfectly normal.

From: Wes Groleau on 8 May 2010 15:30
On 05-08-2010 14:24, Timothy Mathews wrote:
> The aluminum case is part of the heat dissipation so when the system is
> running, it's producing more heat...perfectly normal.

The question was whether the modbook, containing more components (and
possibly doing more processing) is hotter, since the Macbook is quite hot.

Also, both of them have plastic cases, not aluminum.

--
Wes Groleau

"Ideas are more powerful than guns,
We would not let our enemies have guns;
why should we let them have ideas?"
-- Jozef Stalin
From: William Clark on 8 May 2010 17:21
In article <hs4e4i$6uk$2(a)news.eternal-september.org>,
Wes Groleau <Groleau+news(a)FreeShell.org> wrote:

> On 05-08-2010 14:24, Timothy Mathews wrote:
> > The aluminum case is part of the heat dissipation so when the system is
> > running, it's producing more heat...perfectly normal.
>
> The question was whether the modbook, containing more components (and
> possibly doing more processing) is hotter, since the Macbook is quite hot.
>
> Also, both of them have plastic cases, not aluminum.

The ModBook gets really hot if you don't put it to sleep before putting
it in its case.
From: Wes Groleau on 8 May 2010 23:39
On 05-08-2010 17:21, William Clark wrote:
> The ModBook gets really hot if you don't put it to sleep before putting
> it in its case.

That's a helpful hint, thanks. Though I generally shut down completely
before packing. I can boot my Macbook, login, launch mail, close mail,
and shut down five or ten times during a single boot-up of my employer's
Windows XP. So I see no advantage to sleep mode for transport.

I do tend to use sleep mode while at my desk though.

I was mainly concerned with the effects on clothing and skin
if any hotter than the Macbook (which sometimes gets uncomfortable
when used a a true LAPtop. :-)

--
Wes Groleau

People would have more leisure time if it weren't
for all the leisure-time activities that use it up.
-- Peg Bracken
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