With such serious overheating I'd be surprised if opening it up didn't
immediately reveal the "hairball" or some such fan choker. I just had
mine opened today and was surprised to see that it was still reasonably
clean after the last cleaning. But I was using my nephew's computer
while I was in Las Vegas recently and that thing is probably about to
catch fire. Suggesting that he clean it was a worthless exercise. :-)
Chuck Norcutt
On 5/23/2011 6:01 PM, Ken Norton wrote:
>> But, oh, I forgot that Lightroom is 'clunky'.
>> This claimed on a list where many people use Vuescan?
>> A program so irredeemably clunky that I could never manage it.
>
>
> Well, Vuescan takes "clunky" to a whole new level, but that's a story
> for another thread.
>
> Honestly, I really do like Lightroom. It has serious issues in some
> areas, though--especially in memory management. I find it incredible
> the expensive hoops people jump through to make it sing. Aperture
> seems pretty well sorted in comparison.
>
> Since we are on this subject, my poor laptop is jsut about to pack it
> in, permanently. Poor thing overheats and shutsdown after about 10
> minutes of 90-100% processor time. I can usually keep it running if I
> have it sitting on an ice pack. But it'll melt to a puddle in about 20
> minutes. I've got two ice packs which will give me about 45 minutes of
> productivity. Should see if the computer swallowed another hairball.
> Batch processing is an adventure. It'll shutdown if I'm flying
> acrobatics between skyscrapers in Chicago too with FSX. My racing
> sims, I have most of the graphics turned down because of refresh
> rates.
>
> Anybody else notice just how well the iPad works as a portable light-table?
>
> :)
>
> AG
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