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Thanks for the sanity check, guys. I thought it was too weird for words when I read it. I've worked with any number of different ThinkPad models and have *never* had anyone report this kind of problem to me nor had I ever seen anything crop up on the list about it. I knew you could fry eggs on the bottom of the early 760's, but once they put the thermal patch on, you could actually hold the thing in your lap for a while. And I never heard anyone say the heat damaged a hard drive or other components. I don't particularly like the Armada line because of the CTFT screen quality and Compaq support, but in their defense, Compaq builds a solid product overall. The 77xx line has a superior keyboard to the current crop of ThinkPads, IMHO. It has the solid feel that the 75x keyboards had and has their version of a pointing stick. (The screen sucks.) Their 15xx line is a better overall design than the 380 TPs. The palm rest is slanted, and I have less of a feeling that I'm typing with my hands 6" off the desk. They need to lose the touchpad and put a better keyboard on it, though. (And do something about the screen.) At 05:26 AM 1/23/98 EST, Robert Dewar wrote: >Obviously it is intended that you can run with the lid closed, otherwise >why would the TP configuration have the option of not suspending when >the lid is closed. I have run many models of the thinkpad with the lid >closed with no problems at all. > And at 08:33 PM 1/22/98 -0800, Paul Khoury wrote: >I think that the heat must have affected either the embedded servo, the drive >electronics, or both. >Also, it seems that IBM must put the CPU on the bottom. I never saw it when I >disassembled my 701, and I know for a fact the the 355's CPU is on the bottom. >This, and the power inverter (and the battery when charging up) usually get to be the >hottest, but I think the heat is funneled more to the bottom of the machine than the top, >because the top rarely seems to be very warm. >Maybe Compaq poorly designed their Armada line.