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To: rudedog who wrote (51834)	10/20/2000 1:13:08 PM
From: Brian Sullivan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Rudedog, What type of laptop do you have? I'm looking at the latest Dell catalog and there is a new Inspiron 5000e laptop with a 1600x1200 15" display and it sure looks mighty nice. Would you expect the instant on BIOS features to work as you described with this new Dell laptop? -- Brian

To: rudedog who wrote (51834)	10/20/2000 1:21:41 PM
From: JC Jaros	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

I think the fan industry just moved in one day and took over. Why does a sleeping computer need a fan going? It's a major impedement to keeping a PC in a bedroom. How come the fans couldn't be thermostatically controlled, or how come there isn't just a freakin' fan switch. Refrigerators need a fan going to keep the coils from freezing up, but even then that fan isn't on all the time. Why not a little thing in the BIOS where the same thing that blanks the screen, blanks the fan? --- My Osborne1 is an early model. It has no fan. Although no heat problems were reported to make it a big issue, the later Osborne1 mounted a fan under the handle externally and then vented the face like an air-conditioned dashboard. I think the reason was so you could hear and feel the fan and know that your computer had the same competitive 'fan feature' as the IBM PC. --- Tube amps. Now there's a reason to have a 'fan'. Why they're in *these things, and always on, I don't know, -JCJ