Hot warm/hot is your ibook?

Hakkinen said:

My question sounds a bit dumb.

My ibook is rather warm.
I put a simple thermometer on the palm rest just about my CPU, i think it is about 92F to 96F.
I am only running a web browser now.
Is this temperature normal?

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what type of ibook are you useingand what the heck is 92 degrees in centigrade?

mine is comftably warm

92 degrees Fahrenheit = 33.3333333 degrees Celsius

96 degrees Fahrenheit = 35.5555556 degrees Celsius

according to google. As for a normal temperature i have no idea but 35 degrees celsius sounds high,Hakkinen wat is your room temperature at.

unless it really burns, dont worry bout it..my ibook gets warm too..never really measured it though..

sounds hot

92 degrees, thats enough to create sweaty hands. I have an ibook g4, and the left side of the trackpad does get warm, but nowhere near 92. The only simply reason for such a high temperature reading would be that you're using your ibook in bed on top of a blanket or something that covers the fan.

goodtimes5 said:

92 degrees, thats enough to create sweaty hands. I have an ibook g4, and the left side of the trackpad does get warm, but nowhere near 92. The only simply reason for such a high temperature reading would be that you're using your ibook in bed on top of a blanket or something that covers the fan.

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Not necessarily. My old iBook G4 got quite noticeably warm on the left palmrest -- just above the hard disc. Hakkinen, how much RAM does your iBook have? I found that once I upgraded to 640Mb (ergo, cutting out pageouts) the machine only gets warm when doing real work.

As a side, ThermographX rocks.

At http://www.bresink.de under the title:
What is the "normal" temperature for current CPUs? (near the end of the page)
Visit here

There you will find the maximum temperature for each G4 CPU model.
I hope this will help.

This happens to my wife all the time. She likes playing the Sims while in bed, as the computer is resting on blankets. She knows to lift the computer from time to time, but still, it gets toasty.

Hopefully Brap is right:

I found that once I upgraded to 640Mb (ergo, cutting out pageouts) the machine only gets warm when doing real work

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I ordered a 512MB chip from Crucial yesterday, and its already on the FedEx truck today