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So... on Wednesday I packed up my T60 after teaching, as usual. I typically just close the lid and carry it around in sleep mode, since that's faster on both ends (shut down/startup).
Anyway, I negelected to take it out of presentation mode this time because I was in a hurry. As some of you may know, in presentation mode it is set not to shut down or sleep. So when I took it out again a couple of hours later at home, it had been on (display and all) the whole time. The battery was nearly dead, but worse yet, it was crazy hot because my bag has a foam-padded sleeve, which acted as insulation.
As far as I can tell it didn't do any damage, but I thought I would share, since I didn't really think about the risk before it happened to me.
Chris
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Yeah, thats the main reason for why I'm not always puts it to sleep.
Extremely easy to forget.
Although I do it from time to time (and more often with time).
Although I have disabled it to go to sleep when just shutting the lid since I want to be able to do that and not have it sleep and loose all of it's connections. So to that particular issue I'm immune.
But I would be suprprised if it would take any damage. I wouldn't test it of course but it will probably shut down before any damage would occur.
Or perhaps the monitor could suffer a bit. There are probably not any sensors in there and since it normally doesn't get that hot.
The battery probably wears a bit more than normal too but for just one occasion I'd be surprised if any difference would be noticable. Though I would be a bit scared if it had one of the affected Sony batteries
Anyway, glad to hear that nothing happened
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o yeah...
that's the reason why i always take time even in hurry to wait for my notebook to shutdown instead of sleep.
anyway, just be careful not to forget you have a notebook sleeping
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I had the same thing happened to me once. It was a hot summer afternoon. I put my T60 in my bag(a targus leather case with foam pads) after making sure it's in sleep mode. Then I left my bag in the trunk. About 1 hour later I took out my bag and wanted to check email. ****,the thing was hot! I was afraid something may have burned inside. I carefully opened the lid and found the machine was on all the time(the battery was at 100% when I put it in sleep and now only 40% left). Fortunately everything was working still fine. Kudos to Lenovo's excellent design and engineering, I am sure something bad may have happened if it was a Dell.
Yikes, almost cooked my ThinkPad
Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by EagleDevil, Oct 5, 2006.
