On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 08:15:21PM -0700, John Harris wrote:
There is no significant fire risk from this. It's just not good
for
the laptop. There's not exactly a temperature range that can cause
damage, but there is a nominal range for each individual chip, and a
nominal range for the entire system based on that. Anything over isn't
guaranteed to do damage, but will definitely degrade performance, and
anything significantly outside of that range, in either extreme, could
do permanent damage.
There was no lasting damage to the laptop, but it was hot enough to
singe my (admittedly sensitive) fingertips coming out. In all cases the
laptop battery died before thermal protection killed things. Or at
least the battery was always dead coming out.
I can't imagine the sustaned heat was good for the battery either.
That said, *other* stuff in the bag, however, did not fare so well.
Melted food (chocolate!) making huge messes, adhesive things that
softened and slipped, making unsightly trails of goo, and so forth.
Nothing "permanent" but a major PITA nonetheless.
- Solomon
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