CloudBook Keyboard is Hot Stuff
February 16th, 2008 by Avram Piltch
I haven’t had much experience with the Eee PC like my coworkers have so I don’t know if the Eee PC gets uncomfortably hot after hours of use, but I can say that tonight I was using the CloudBook on my dining room table for about five hours and, after a while, I could feel a fair amount of heat radiating from the machine. I lifted the CloudBook off the table and felt the bottom. Wow, hot stuff!
Perhaps this level of heat is to be expected for a device this small, but let’s just say I wouldn’t put this on my own laptop for long unless I was wearing a very thick pair of pants or wanted to avoid having children. I can’t think of an objective way to measure the temperature, but if any of you have suggestions, please comment.
February 16th, 2008 at 7:10 am
Take a break. (Seriously)
This also happens with the ASUS EeePC, the manual warns: “Do not place on lap.”
So, unless you are looking for roasted chestnuts …
February 16th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
Do you have a cooking thermometer? They can usually be bought at a 99-cent store (said the cheapskate!).
February 17th, 2008 at 11:05 am
I use one of those ditigal thermometers that you can get at an auto parts supply or a lot of other places. It has a laser pointer also, so you can tell exactly where you are pointing it, and reads out on an LCD facing you. Very useful for lots of things.
February 19th, 2008 at 6:41 am
Many good variety of keyboard I found at Newegg store at discounted price….
February 22nd, 2008 at 8:38 am
In my experience, having used an Eee since late December, while it gets fairly “warm”, at no point has it gotten to be what I would call “hot”… Nothing like the bottom of my HP laptop can get, certainly. Never hot enough I would find it painful or even particularly uncomfortable even on my lap.