On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:44:25 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:

>Nowhere did I insinuate that I was speaking only of hard disks.
>Mainboard and other internal components are indeed at risk of
>premature failure when case temps are elevated.
>
>Do you know anyone running a laptop 24/7 who has had it last
>as long as a typical desktop?

Well, if you would like an exceptional case, then I have a Siemens
486DX2 laptop that was operated nearly continuously for a few years as a
part of metering/data acquisition system. Not a true industrial PC, it
has the strenghts of fanless design and clever protection against
ingress of dust. Not very useful in 2006 but still works under heavily
customized OS/2 (to ensure we aren't going OT...)

So the question remains how much processing power could be delivered by
today's technology in a fanless desktop-sized machine that achieves
comparable reliability and "fits the bill".






 
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