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- From: ogil@quads.uchicago.edu (Brian W. Ogilvie)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.laptops
- Subject: Transporting notebooks in the winter
- Summary: How does one do it safely?
- Keywords: PowerBook LCD freezing Jack Frost I hate Chicago winters
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.141031.17191@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 14:10:31 GMT
- Sender: news@uchinews.uchicago.edu (News System)
- Reply-To: ogil@midway.uchicago.edu
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- Organization: Morris Fishbein Center for the History of Science and Medicine
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- Greetings all.
-
- I am buying a PowerBook 145 and have a question about temperature.
- Specifically, Apple's product information sheet gives a storage
- temperature minimum of 50 degrees Fahrenheit (10 degrees Celsius),
- which is quite a bit higher than that of other notebooks I've looked
- at.
-
- Any idea why this would be so? I know that LCDs can freeze, but that
- shouldn't start to happen until below 0 Celsius (I don't recall
- exactly what the freezing point is, but my LCD watch would start to
- freeze in brisk Midwest winters). Any other reason why one would want
- to keep the PowerBook nice and warm? I know that one shouldn't
- operate it at low temperatures, but assuming it has time to warm up at
- the office, what's the problem with 35 or 40 degrees F?
-
- If 50 degrees Fahrenheit is an absolute minimum, does anyone have any
- recommendations for transporting the machine in the winter? I walk to
- and from work (about a mile each way), and I would like to be able to
- tote my machine with me in Chicago winters. Would an insulated bag do
- the trick? Has anyone considered such issues, or do people with
- laptops not have time to walk anywhere? :-)
-
- Followups to comp.sys.laptops, please, unless they are specifically
- PowerBook-related.
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