Path: utzoo!utgpu!radio!helios!dooley From: dooley@helios.toronto.edu (Kevin Dooley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: If you can't stand the heat ... Message-ID: <578@helios.toronto.edu> Date: 6 Jul 88 19:03:47 GMT Reply-To: dooley@helios.physics.toronto.edu (Kevin Dooley) Distribution: na Organization: University of Toronto Physics/Astronomy/CITA Computing Consortium Lines: 21 The disgustingly hot weather we've been having in Toronto this week has provided me with yet another interesting comparison between the Amiga and the Mac. Last summer I was babysitting a Mac. I had always wanted one, but could never afford it. I was glad that I hadn't bought one by the end of the summer. There were a lot of things that really annoyed me about it, but the worst was the way it behaved in warm weather. If the machine was physically cool, I could use it for about an hour on a hot day (I don't have any air conditioning). Then it would start getting confused and crash. I could usually reboot it once or twice, but it invariably crashed and, if I tried again, it would claim that all of my disks were buggered. This would invariably happen if the temperature was above ~30 C (~86 F). Well, yesterday I was working on my Amiga 2000 from 9:00am to about 7:00pm in a room which was ~40 C (~104 F). It crashed a few times, but always because of my bad programming (Oh, did I do THAT?). It never had any trouble rebooting and never misread a single disk. Maybe that everything-in-one-box design isn't such a great idea after all.... Kevin Dooley