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Subject: Re: Is it normal for a portable to computer celeron 433 Mhz to heat up ?

Author: Jeroen van Dorp

Date: 07:25:18 04/25/00

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On April 25, 2000 at 09:08:33, Jorge Pichard wrote:

>Yesterday I received a gateway Notebook with an intel celeron 433 Mhz with 64 MB
>of RAM and after 3 hours of pitting different chess softwares  using Winboard
>4.07, I noticed that it was very hot. It this normal for a portable computer ? I
>am a little concern since this is my first portable computer.

In my experience yes. You will get a nice and warm lap.
When the fan never stops there might be a problem, but if not, it's okay. It's
all hardware cramped in a very flat casing.

Jeroen ;-}



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