This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------E12D8FB8BDAEA0B6C439A703 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lee Adamson wrote: > John Flanagan wrote: > > Anyway, to really directly answer your question: Yes, heat is a major > > concern for many modern computers. You didn't think that those big honkin' > > heatsinks that they put on Pentiums and Pentium IIs were decorative, did > > you? They're there to try to conduct heat away from the CPU as fast as > > possible, and lacking that heatsink, *plus* sufficient airflow to carry > > heat away from the heatsink itself, the computer will crash after just a > > couple minutes. If you don't have good airflow, the heat will pretty much > > just stay in the case. > > CPU heat also depends on what OS you're running, ie. a Linux system runs > much cooler than a windows system do to the fact that it halts the CPU > during the idle loop, where windows does not. true, along the same lines of thought on power consumption, I wrote this small summary last year for the amusment of my supervisor. This might be a wake up call for anybody thinking of putting windows95 on a wearable and running it for the 15 hours that Thad does ;-) http://wearables.essex.ac.uk/reports/power.html Regards Neill > > > -- > Subcription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of > "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" to> Wear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.ml.org -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Neill Newman Tel: Mobile 07970 673722 Department of Electronics Systems Engineering Work 01206 873708 University of Essex Fax: Work 01206 872900 http://wearables.essex.ac.uk/index.html email:
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