unix laptop question: closing the lid

[Robert Hajime Lanning]

The original question was stating that this machine would be a server sitting
on a table.

I never pack up my thinkpad without it atleast suspended.  If you are running
the CPU at full power you must have ventilation.  Also, the longest battery
life I have seen with these machines is about 3.5 hours.  I can have my
thinkpad suspended to memory for about 3 days.  In hibernation (suspend to
disk) it is indefinit.

On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Chuck Yerkes wrote:
> Quoting Robert Hajime Lanning (lanning at monsoonwind.com):
> > I have a Thinkpad 600X.  There is an option to not have the lid do anything.
>
> Are there heat implications to this?
>
> I used to have a Vaio 14" laptop (terrible support for anything,
> tho FreeBSD was stable - tho without support for the modem,
> firewire, or sound and X ran only with a native Linux driver
> at the time).
>
> One week it decided that it would no longer sleep on close.
> I learned this with a very warm laptop bag and near dead
> batteries as I got onto a plane.  Rather than really chasing
> down the problem, I turned it into a Mac and my life was
> better.
>
> But the Vaio in this state seemed warm and I wondered if the design
> presumed some airflow from the vents and keyboard above.
>
>

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