scott wrote:
>> Yes, that's right. THE FAN IS CONTROLLED IN SOFTWARE! How retarded is 
>> that? Surely this is a serious fire hazard...
> 
> No, because the machine will switch off (which is in hardware) long 
> before the chance of any fire breaking out.

As I say, the laptop let itself get hot enough to randomly malfunction 
without turning off. What makes you think it would turn off at some even 
higher temperature?

(A more likely scenario is that whatever program it's running would 
crash, causing the CPU to halt and therefore cool down again.)

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