On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:52:12 -0500
David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET> wrote:

> Sorry Stan :)  The new fancy laptops are running with 75-85-watt
> supplies; my Thinkpads (A20M and T23) use 72-watts; an HP 5500ct
> Omnibook has about a 40-watt supply.  This is for computing+charging.

They also run HOT!  The one for my Thinkpad 770 gets almost too hot to
hold onto if it's powering the machine and charging the battery at the
same time.

This is what happens when you make electronics smaller -- the same heat
is generated, but there's less surface area to dissipate it, so the case
temperature has to go up.

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David Brodbeck, N8SRE
'82 Diesel Westfalia
'94 Honda Civic Si