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To: Gary Kao who wrote (162856)	3/24/2002 7:31:33 PM
From: denni	Respond to of 186894

>>On my PIII 700 notebook, I have noticed that the CPU actually gets much hotter when the computer goes into idle. my piii 850 dell c600 is luke warm. the fan never goes on unless i block the air. it makes a nice machine with an intel 802.11b wireless gateway & cable modem.

To: Gary Kao who wrote (162856)	3/25/2002 11:14:48 AM
From: fingolfen	Respond to of 186894

On my PIII 700 notebook, I have noticed that the CPU actually gets much hotter when the computer goes into idle. I have no idea why. The AMD notebooks locking up could be when the CPU load is greatest, or alternatively, the poorer quality of the motherboard/chipset...this seems to be a consistent theme as mentioned previously on this thread. 2nd and 3rd tier manufacturers are just not going to sink a huge amount of R&D to cater to a product with just 20% (less this coming year!) of the market. My P3-600 notebook will get a tad warm as well, but I'm not sure what component is doing it. It's a Dell, and one thing I do know is if I'm doing extended word processing on batter, the battery life is amazing. I typed for almost two hours (after booting up on battery) and still had something like 58% charge.