[LINK] Laptop aint for lap top ...

[Jeff Fulton]

At least you are smart enough to notice it's getting too hot.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jan Whitaker" <jwhit@primenet.com>
To: "dc" <rsedc@urgento.gse.rmit.edu.au>
Cc: <link@anu.edu.au>
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2002 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: [LINK] Laptop aint for lap top ...


> At 12:19 PM 22/11/02 +1100, dc wrote:
> >DOCTORS are warning that laptop computers may inflict a burn even
> >    through clothed skin,
>
> I can attest to this.  I often sit on the lounge with the laptop in the
> evening puttering away and have taken to putting a thick rug on my lap
> between me and the box.   Those little chips generate a LOT of heat!  I
> don't have the body parts that the gentleman had damaged, but even skin on
> upper legs is sensitive to this heat.
>
> Jan
>
>
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