where does this heat come from on my 12"PB??

[toughboy]

as a 2 months 867mhz 12"Pb user, I have a questionmark on my mind about where the heat comes from..

when I work with "ice" (thats his ironic name :)) the surface which is under my left palm gets warmer than my right one.. is there any hardwaric reason for that, or just because I'm a right-handed person and air sirculation cools the PB whenever I raise my hand to use my external mouse??

[skymac]

The HDD is right under th left palm, I'm pretty sure thats whats generates all the heat. I've used demo models at my local reseller and its one of the reasons im getting the 15 incher instead.

[applemacdude]

I believe it's because of the L3 cache. Oh wait the 12incher doesnt have it hmm hardrive? i dont know hmm maybe the...

[alxths]

Well, from the looks of this (http://www.kodawarisan.com/ug/PowerBook/index.html) , its the harddrive

[Daveman Deluxe]

It's the hard disk.

[G5orbust]

Originally posted by Daveman Deluxe
It's the hard disk.

Right on the dot. Im on my 12 incher right now and I just uploaded 92MB of JPEG images, causing the left palm rest (Hard drive) to heat up a bit.