Operating a laptop when closed. Disabling the lid switch ?

[Timothy Davis]

On 01/19/2012 02:36 PM, John Aldrich wrote:
> Quoting Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net>:
>> Am 19.01.2012 19:05, schrieb linux guy:
>>> I'd like to run my new laptop with the lid closed.   I'm using
>>> external displays and keyboard, mouse, etc.   When its at my desk, I
>>> only want to use it as a processing unit.
>>
>> you do not really want this because the machine will OVERHEAT!
>>
> 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.
>
+1, I like to leave my netbeook plugged in with the lid closed when I 
download a huge file overnight. Never been an issue here.

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