Group: comp.sys.mac.advocacy
From: Alan Baker
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2008 8:59 PM
Subject: Re: Mac Mini Using CD Player as a Fan?

In article <1g4Mj.6253$DY1.3111@bignews5.bellsouth.net>,
"The zara" wrote:

> "Sandman" wrote in message
> news:mr-DF5BED.16314712042008@News.Individual.NET...
> > In article ,
> > "The zara" wrote:
> >
> >> "Sandman" wrote in message
> >> news:mr-1922FB.10042012042008@News.Individual.NET...
> >> > In article
> >> > ,
> >> > socrtwo wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Since the Mac mini doesn't have a fan, I was wondering if you have a
> >> >> CD in it, does the machine use it like a fan, when it gets too hot?
> >> >>
> >> >> It is getting hot in here, and suddenly for no reason the CD player
> >> >> revs up the CD in it...
> >> >
> >> > I dont see how a revolving flat plastic disk would move around air in
> >> > an effective enough way inside a computer.
> >>
> >> Maybe the CD drive has fan blades incorporated into it.
> >
> > Or maybe the fan in the Mac mini has fan blades?
>
> I don't know or care.

Yes, but you can say that about so many things....

--
Alan Baker
Vancouver, British Columbia
"If you raise the ceiling four feet, move the fireplace from that wall
to that wall, you'll still only get the full stereophonic effect if you
sit in the bottom of that cupboard."