[geeks] OSX Server

[Olaf Mersmann]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Olaf Mersmann wrote:
>> A coworker used to run his with the lid almost shut and he apparently 
>> fryed the memory that way, so I guess the system dissapates quite a 
>> bit of heat through the keyboard (the main heatpipe runs right under it).
> 
> That's not a new problem.  The thermal design of the AST Ascentia P 
> series notebooks assumed that the display would always be on when the 
> machine was in use; we had several people at a prior employer who 
> disregarded this and ran theirs with the lid closed, connected to 
> external monitors, and cooked the LCDs.

Afaik you can't run Powerbooks with their lid closed unless you screw 
over OS X. But he was basically circumventing that "protective measure" 
by keeping it just open. Kinda makes you worry when a few extra cents 
for hardware is traded in for more software madness to monitor the 
machines health.

-- Olaf