Discovered last night that one shouldn't block the side vent in a Toshiba Portege.
I was catching up on missed episodes of Traveler on my laptop. The laptop was sitting on top of a down comforter (of which I thought nothing). About the middle of the third episode - BOOM - the laptop goes dark, fan off, instantly.
I suspect that the comforter billowed up and blocked the heat vent (it puts out a lot) and this came close to fricasseeing the laptop. I turned it upside down (to allow the lower plate to cool) and gave it about 10 minutes.
Started right up again. I think Vista must have much improved disk management software embedded (journalling?) because I didn't get a BSOD or other error during the restart. None of that "Windows must check your hard disk" crud that so annoyed with previous instantiations.
But it's obvious that Toshiba still has a long way to go in laptop design. Enough said.
Posted by artandscience at July 16, 2007 09:20 AM