<font face="courier new,monospace"><br></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 2:36 PM, John Aldrich <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jmaldrich@yahoo.com">jmaldrich@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Quoting Reindl Harald <<a href="mailto:h.reindl@thelounge.net" target="_blank">h.reindl@thelounge.net</a>>:<br>
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Am 19.01.2012 19:05, schrieb linux guy:<br>
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I'd like to run my new laptop with the lid closed. I'm using<br>
external displays and keyboard, mouse, etc. When its at my desk, I<br>
only want to use it as a processing unit.<br>
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you do not really want this because the machine will OVERHEAT!<br>
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How do you figure that? I'm typing this at my desk at work on a laptop with the lid closed. Granted it's on a docking station that raises the rear a couple inches (I guess for extra air-flow) but it still illustrates the fallacy of your argument.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"></font></span><br>
</blockquote><div><br>I won't go so far as say 'over-heat', but _my_ laptop does get 'a lot warmer' with its lid shut.<br>Its due to the fact that its backlight rarely gets turned off when the lid is closed.<br>
(The difference between one radiating surface versus two.) <br><br><br></div></div>