scott wrote:
>> Well, perhaps. But CPU temperature is *utterly* critical to being able 
>> to continue using your laptop. If it gets hot enough, the CPU will 
>> burn out, and then your laptop is a very expensive paper weight. (!)
> 
> Can this actually happen though, or does the CPU just shut down before 
> it knows it is going to melt?

I am unsure. One would hope that powering down the system if a 
hard-limit temperature is reached *is* in hardware rather than software. 
OTOH, here we have a laptop which got sufficiently hot for the CPU to 
malfunction fairly seriously, yet still the power remains on.

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