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Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)

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Re: Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)

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Post by q87b »

fredrikholm wrote: post #55
PeterStuer wrote: post #41

I have done this. Many years ago I was forced to work with a terrible laptop. It was one of those Dell 5cm thick things that were basically cramming a desktop cpu and gpu into someting that looked like someone had bolted a second box undeneeth a standard laptop. Fans ofc screeming loudly all day. So I had the brilliant idea to just run everyting of an external drive so that when I could work from home, I could seamle…

> but the 127 pages of a product manual I had been writing the last week were gone without backup. This hurts just reading it. How'd it go in the end?

> I came across the drive again while fetching some peas from the freezer a few weeks later. Gave it another try, and lo and behold, it worked!

Re: Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)

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Post by pkolaczk »

Putting electronics in a fridge may work sometimes, but it may also cause irreversible damage if you're unlucky. The biggest threat to electronics is not just temperature but also moisture. Cooling the air captured inside a laptop may cause water to condense on electronic components and may cause subsequent short circuits, which may burn something irreversibly once powered on. Whether it happens depends on the relative humidity of the air you start with and the temperature delta. In dry areas this may be ok, but really don't try that method in tropics (or even in Europe in Summer - I can see condensation happening almost all the time in my fridge).

Re: Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)

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Post by fifilura »

tehlike wrote: post #13

When i needed to cool down a laptop, i used gel ice packs.

Me too!

Intel MacBook Pro combined with Microsoft teams meetings does this all the time for me.

I have a gel ice pack in the frezer.

When I put it under the laptop it cools down very quickly and I can work again.

Re: Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)

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Post by umarniz »

I grew up in a city with temp reaching 48 Celsius in the summer

Of course this wasn’t very good for electronic devices and hence every console I bought died with a year of over heating.

For my PS2 I managed to extend the lifetime by placing big blocks of ice in a tray underneath it and the console sitting on top on a rack to avoid contact.

I had to replace the ice every hour but the system worked well enough till the console died eventually of water damage.

Re: Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)

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Post by actionfromafar »

q87b wrote: post #61
fredrikholm wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> but the 127 pages of a product manual I had been writing the last week were gone without backup. This hurts just reading it. How'd it go in the end?

> I came across the drive again while fetching some peas from the freezer a few weeks later. Gave it another try, and lo and behold, it worked!

By then the deadline could’ve flown by.

Re: Adam? ... is there a reason your laptop is in the fridge? (2006)

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Post by als0 »

umarniz wrote: post #67

I grew up in a city with temp reaching 48 Celsius in the summer Of course this wasn’t very good for electronic devices and hence every console I bought died with a year of over heating. For my PS2 I managed to extend the lifetime by placing big blocks of ice in a tray underneath it and the console sitting on top on a rack to avoid contact. I had to replace the ice every hour but the system worked well enough till the…

> till the console died eventually of water damage.

That's so sad!

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