[ydl-gen] Google Earth on YDL 5.0

[Eric Dunbar]

On 26/03/07, Brian Wood <beww at bresnan.net> wrote:
>
> On Mar 26, 2007, at 8:31 PM, Eric Dunbar wrote:
>
> > On 26/03/07, Brian Wood <beww at bresnan.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> I've also read that some retail stores that are running PS3s all
> >> day are
> >> starting to have thermal problems, but these are units in closed
> >> cabinets so
> >> that's not too surprising.
> >
> > Wasn't that one of the reasons Apple cited for going with Intel chips?
> > PPC chips simply were "too hot to handle" <groan> in terms of their
> > power consumption (and, indirectly, heat production).
>
> Yeah, the promised G5 notebook never materialized due to power and
> heat problems, and consequently battery life. My G5 iMac gets close
> to 180 degrees when working hard, and idles at around 125.

You're presumably talking in Fahrenheit (I'm guessing you're from the US ;-)?

52 degrees C is quite warm (125 Fahrenheit) and 82 degrees C (180
degrees F... 1.8 F = 1.0 C) sounds like it's way beyond the safe
operating long-term temperature for a CPU.