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Great way to destroy your laptop

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Contributed by: Non_PC Monday, April 30 2007 @ 07:23 AM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Have Not Tried

Recommend Product: NO

If your laptop wasn't designed to work with the lid closed there is a good reason for it. You're going to over heat it. And probably damage your LCD and or hard drive or motherboard from excess heat that is not being properly dissipated. This is just a very bad idea.

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Great way to destroy your laptop - semaja2

The current Apple line of MacBooks support clamshell mode and is safe to do so, as well as the PowerBooks support the clamshell mode as well.

As far as Apple has told (limited) us is that the iBooks do not support clamshell mode, although everyone that has used their laptops in clamshell mode have not reported any heat increase.

However if your still concerned that you may fry your Mac, keep a eye out on the temps using other software on MacUpdate.

Please also note this whole "may" over heat is in the readme file.

PS. The only time your laptop really may suffer is if you do a process that uses the cpu non-stop, or you put the laptop in a bag (this is a confirmed killer

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Monday, April 30 2007 @ 02:16 PM PDT