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Thing is.... My gigantic desktop computer has thermal cutoffs, it will shut down if the CPU gets too hot. I remember desktop PCs having that for ages. I've h
by erinaceousjones 2y ago
Thing is.... My gigantic desktop computer has thermal cutoffs, it will shut down if the CPU gets too hot. I remember desktop PCs having that for ages. I've had overheating laptops do the same. Are laptop manufacturers just getting lazy and skimping on failsafe hardware temperature cut-offs!?? Like, as a hardware manufacturer I would always add that factor-of-5 "the software side WILL fuck up" safety measures. How is the HARDWARE allowing software to let it melt itself in this day and age!?
- misiek08 2y agoHaving accountants and not engineers architecting software and hardware gets you to that point. Crappy engineers don’t help too, there are too many unskilled people in „IT” „old” and „legacy” hardware 8-10 years ago was fighting with the tasks and you could still put laptop on your legs. Funny enough yesterday I went into this sleep stuff, because my 5yo Dell battery drained while being „shut down” after 1.5 weeks and while charging I tried to run 2 tabs in browser to look for fix and my legs burned - so I had to put it diagonally on the table to cool down. We have order of magnitude faster hardware capable of doing order of magnitude less things.
- rcxdude 2y agoIt's probably because the hardware was not designed to be operating at full power surrounded by insulation (i.e. in a bag). In that scenario the parts that the hardware monitors may still be at 'acceptable' temperatures (which can be ~100C), while other (unmonitored) parts that would not normally get that hot get way too hot.
- jiggawatts 2y agoOnce the lithium batteries start to experience thermal runaway, it doesn't matter if the CPU turns itself off.