In article <mailman.10878.1402242019.18130.python-l...@python.org>, Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote:
> You may want to reconsider that statement after the first fan failure in > your mini. We've had quite a few Mac's in the tv station, as video > servers, graphics composers, etc. The airflow for cooling in them is > controlled by baffles to get the maximum air flow past the hot spots, but > a fan failure usually cooks the whole thing. And at that time, Macs > warranty did not cover collateral damage from a fan failure. Cooked cpu? > Too bad, so sad. The CPU (or maybe I'm thinking of the video card?) in the Dell has some huge heat sink, a bunch of funky ductwork, and a dedicated fan. I suspect if that fan were to fail, the chip it's cooling would fry itself pretty quickly too. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
