Re: Product idea

On 13/02/2025 14:08, Don Y wrote:

On 2/12/2025 11:00 PM, bitrex wrote:

Desktop computers that put out significant heat have gone the way of the dodo for most people under the age of 40 probably, those who aren't PC gamers, anyway.

 That's likely because desktop computers have gone away -- except in
corporate settings.

Even in corporate setting you can get things the size of a shallow lunchbox now that can do everything that any normal office worker will ever need. Many of them will clip onto the back of an LCD display.

My laptop at idle doesn't heat a thing and at full tilt puts out enough to warm up one finger, maybe.

 Laptops tend to be bad examples as they will throttle themselves to keep
the CPU from melting.  Desktops can rely on larger fans to spin up to
move more heat.

My laptop back around Y2k was I think a Pentium 4 and left permanent scorch marks on the table where I used it. It was definitely not a laptop by any stretch of the imagination unless you wanted to be cooked!
OK I will admit that I did run it fairly hard for max performance.

You don't realize how much heat most kit throws off until you site it
in a poorly ventilated area and note the temperature differential,
over time.

I choose systems these days for maximum performance and minimum power consumption. If I am not running a heavy maths simulation and just typing like I am now then in winter I can get a "Warning CPU fan 0 rpm" message - it used to bother me at first until I checked the CPU temperature which was under 30C so totally safe.
Modern OS and modern CPUs throttle back the clock and make all the performance cores idle when there is no serious computational load.
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Martin Brown