On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 12:32 +0800, Shay Telfer wrote: > >Personally I have an older Toshiba that, under Linux, has nice manual > >fan and power control, so I can run it in slower-and-silent mode even on > >mains. I'd actually be very interested in knowing if the mac laptops > >have this (and if you can manually turn the fan on if you wish to keep > >the laptop cooler than it does normally). > > Nope. Because I imagine that most users are really concerned about > the speed of their laptop's fan.
No, but I expect many are concerned about being able to tell their laptop to keep its self cooler (when using it as a "lap-top" not an "oh-my-god-it's-burning-me-through-a-pillow-top") or to run in low power mode even on mains (because they're just word processing and want some peace and quiet). > I can see the online discussions now: Should my fan be on 3100 or 4500 RPM? > Or: I forgot to turn my fan on and my laptop got really hot and no > longer works... Help! Heh, I can imagine that. However, in the case of my laptop the fan still turns on when it needs to. I just get control over whether it runs all the time or not (to keep the laptop cooler and more comfortable, or to run it quietly). I think it's a perfectly reasonable thing to want, and not just for hopeless geek users either. I know of several others who're really annoyed by laptop fans and their vagaries. I guess if the laptop runs cool enough and the fan is quiet enough it wouldn't be that big a deal. I don't recall either of those being true of the last mac laptop I tried out, but that _was_ a while ago. -- Craig Ringer
