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From: mclek@dcatla.UUCP (Larry E. Kollar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: If you can't stand the heat ...
Message-ID: <6611@dcatla.UUCP>
Date: 13 Jul 88 14:53:48 GMT
References: <578@helios.toronto.edu> <4210@cbmvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: mclek@sunb.UUCP (Larry E. Kollar)
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in article <578@helios.toronto.edu>, dooley@helios.toronto.edu (Kevin Dooley) says about the Mac Plus:
> 
> There were a lot of things that really
> annoyed me about it, but the worst was the way it behaved in warm weather.

Blame the all-in-one design.  I use a Plus at work, and the "Hades point" (top
left of the machine, near the front) runs over 120F even in air-conditioned
environments.  You need a cooling fan (recommended anyway) in non-climate-
controlled areas, or you can count on replacing power supplies down the road.

The Amiga 500 may be a little more temperature-sensative than a 2000, but not
so much as a Mac since the monitor's a separate unit on all Amigas.  Anyway,
I've been using my 500 in an 80-degree high-humidity environment during
evenings, with no trouble.  I have a fan, but it's keeping the liveware (me)
from overheating. :-)

In article <4210@cbmvax.UUCP> daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie) writes:
>It seems the '2000 WAS doing a pretty good job of heating up the rest of
>the house.

In a heat wave, everything contributes to the heat -- but I'd have a hard time
believing that even a full-blown 2000 could pump out THAT much heat....

	Larry Kollar	...!gatech!dcatla!mclek