• Typewar
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    5 months ago

    And the lid is not open because of preventing it sleeping, but rather to cool it down

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      5 months ago

      Yes! Very important!

      I remember it being a bit trendy to turn old laptops into desktops by just unplugging the display and plugging peripherals into them, but people were finding that the keyboard actually was designed as another heat escape, so running them with the lids closed wasn’t so great!

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        5 months ago

        There’s people who gut them and build a nice wood-and-allu mini-pc (not me, too lazy, would order a case).

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        Truee, didn’t see that. But generally just wanted to add to the vibe of these laptop hosters