From: "Glenn Meadows" 

Just out of curiosity, have you tried any of the cooling pads for laptops?
One person here has one for his laptop, and he said it makes a noticeable
difference in the top case temp, and when he shuts down at the end of the
day, he says the bottom is MUCH cooler.

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Glenn M.


"Frank Haber"  wrote in message
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> Having also been burned by a rash of laptop HD failures, I'm running a
drive
> temp util on all of them.  I can't see a lot of correlation yet.  Most of
the
> laptops that cross my path (PIIIs and Centrinos at this point, plus their
> Celery equivalents) seem to run the drives in the 35-41C region, a bit
hotter
> than desktops.  This might be a good reason not to cuss too much at 4200
rpm -
> it's cooler.
>
> The failures have been mostly Hitachi, but they seem to have the bulk of
the
> OEM 2.5" drive market.  I'm omitting from this discussion the P4 laptops
that
> run the HD at 50C plus - these are just suicidal for component health, as
I've
> said here before.
>

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