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I actually wish my my thinkpad would display a dialog when it was overheating, instead of just completely shutting down randomly in the middle of my work. Come

by araneae 17y ago

I actually wish my my thinkpad would display a dialog when it was overheating, instead of just completely shutting down randomly in the middle of my work. Come to think of that, my Dell did that too... (and this is coming from someone who hates iPads)

pyre 17y ago
Well, it's a tradeoff. As long as your ThinkPad has sensors (which it probably does) you could set it up to warn you at a certain temperature. The trade-off being that if it actually overheats you can get various random and undefined behavior from the hardware, so you have to set it somewhere below that threshold (which means finding that threshold and setting the warning level some distance from it).