Re: POWER6 now or later?

["Peter Dow (ML)" <maillist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Larry,

<tic>
I guess you just don't want it enough.  A woman I know got a MacPro and 
left it in standby mode in its carrying case, took it out and burned her 
thigh.  The Apple website actually warns users that it's really, really 
hot when running, and may cause burns, and to always have it turned off 
when in its carrying case.

If she's willing to suffer a little to have a MacPro notebook, wouldn't 
you suffer a little for an iSeries notebook?
</tic>

Actually, my wife's notebook (Averatec) kept shutting down within 5-10 
seconds of turning it on, and the problem was the exhaust opening for 
the CPU cooling fan was clogged with dust.

*Peter Dow* /
Dow Software Services, Inc.
909 793-9050
pdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:pdow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> /

Larry Bolhuis wrote:
> Have you ever seen the blowers in a blade center?!?! I am dead serious 
> that those things rival the air movement of the blower in the heat pump 
> at my house.  Sure the POWER6 is even better than the POWER5 at power 
> (and therefore heat) management. But fool yourself not, it don't run 
> cool enough for any laptop I've lugged around.  Now maybe (Just maybe) 
> if you clocked the thing down to 1Ghz or so it may run cool enough.  
> With all the horsepower in there even 1Ghz would do a nice job for a 
> single user system. 
>
> I know my brother was trying to create a low powered Linux web server 
> for his personal site. He underclocked a Pentium something or other so 
> low it didn't need a fan. He set the hard drive to spin down and removed 
> the video card and stripped the memory. He got it low enough to remove 
> the fan from the power supply even. It ran great! But it still drew 
> something like 4 times more power than the laptop he ended up using 
> which idles at around 30 watts as I recall.   Little chance an entire 
> POWER6 infrastructure is gonna come in anywhere near that level.
>
>  - Larry
>
> Booth Martin wrote:
>   
> > ??  If they are porting the OS to a blade server then it would seem they 
> > have resolved issues of heat? 
> >
> > Paul Nelson wrote:
> >   
> >     
> > > Why not a laptop? Heat.
> > >
> > > Paul Nelson
> > > Cell 708-670-6978
> > > Office 512-392-2577
> > > nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Booth Martin
> > > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2007 12:40 PM
> > > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > > Subject: Re: POWER6 now or later?
> > >
> > > I am still not sure I understand the business case for a desktop unit.  
> > > Portability, for marketing I suppose?  But after that very small need, 
> > > then what?  Besides, if the goal is portability then why not a laptop?
> > >
> > > If the battle is for price alone, then other solutions seem 
> > > quicker/easier/more responsive?
> > >
> > >     
> > >       
>
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