On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 05:00:35PM +0300, Jukka Marin wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 09:45:29AM -0400, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> > This is often a very bad idea -- many laptops have exhaust blower fans,
> > and exhaust vents, on the sides, but draw _fresh_ air for cooling through
> > the keyboard (or the reverse).  If you leave them running with the lid
> > shut, well, the potential consequences are obvious...
> 
> Can you name such a laptop?  Sounds like a bad design idea to me - keyboard
> is where all dirt falls and you're saying these machines _suck_ the dirt
> inside them?  Yikes :)  Blowing hot air to user's fingers doesn't sound too
> good, either..  My laptops do not breathe through the keyboard, at least.. :)

The modern Powerbooks all do.  I'm pretty sure some IBM laptops do, as
well.

There are quite a few bends in the keyboard assembly to serve as baffles; I
would think they serve to trap dirt pretty well.