Do I have to use my laptop in an air-conditioned room?

Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 | Maintenance, laptops

Big computers are usually housed in air-conditioned rooms. This is done because an air-conditioner:

keeps the environment dust free

provides a cool working environment.

When you think about the harmful effects of dust and heat on a laptop, you may conclude that an air-conditioned room is the only place where you should use your machine with safety.

In practice, this is hardly ever possible. Few people have air-conditioned homes and you won’t have this luxury in your classroom. Furthermore, one of the advantages of a laptop over a desktop PC is its portability. This implies that it can be carried with you and used anywhere. Most of the time you will work on it in an environment where there is no air-conditioning.

The good news is that laptops and desktop PCs have been made in such a way that you do not need special surroundings – they operate quite well in a normal environment at home, a classroom or most other places where you may take it. Of course, you must remember that your laptop is a delicate piece of equipment which must not be exposed to extremes in the environment.

Wherever you work you can compensate for a lack of air-conditioning. Keep two important rules in mind:

avoid dust

do not expose your laptop to very high or very low temperatures.

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1 Comment to Do I have to use my laptop in an air-conditioned room?

Clinton
Tuesday, 24 March, 2009

Strangely though the term Laptop is a misnomer because the more inappropriate place to use a notebook is in fact one’s lap. The heat is unable to escape through ones fabric and the tiny fibres constitute dust.

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