OTish :D Colors of Cases for Fedora was: Re: Open Letter

[Tim]

Tim:
>> Are your cases under bright lighting, or in the sunlight?  If not, I'd
>> suspect that casing colour wouldn't be significant.  Colour's more of an
>> issue about absorbing heat, than radiating it.

g:
> you left out the 'basic of the theory'.
> 
> color/colour would/may be less relevant compared to if case is a
> dark green or light green.
> 
> dark colors or light colors equating to black or white.

Fair enough.  A dark body in sunlight is going to get hotter, much
easier, than a light body (such as a computer next to the office
window).  And since we're talking computers, and not jet engines, I'm
fairly sure that heat getting into a box is more of an issue than
radiating heat.  It's the fans that will be doing that much more than
the case.

Going off on a tangent, only a little while ago I was at a product
demonstration for a professional Panasonic video camera, and got
castigated for daring to ask whether they'd considered making the camera
in something other than black.  While black is good for not upsetting
your arty lighting, I pointed out that when we take a black camera
outdoors in the Australian summer sun, it roasts in minutes.  It gets
too hot to handle, and the camera overheats.  They just didn't get it.
They didn't see it as a problem, and also thought that because it's
mostly digital, heat induced noise won't be an issue.  Idiots!  The
first stages are analogue, and they're highly sensitive.

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