Feeling hot, hot, hot... in British Columbia? In December? Welcome to another in The Register's series of computers getting hot under the collar and flinging bundles of bork at passersby. "It's getting hot in here" is the opening to a song all too familiar to whoever is responsible for this unfortunate bit of digital signage snapped over 2019's festive period at that Metropolis …
That boost of the fan at startup does a reasonable job of blowing some of the accumulated gunk out making it more efficient in the long run. Whether that is design or not I don't know but on a Fujitsu and Dell business laptops we have had to dismember them to clean out the fans and heatsinks whilst the HP continue to without an issue.
"Strong work, since the outdoor temperatures tend to be somewhat on the low side in that part of the world during December."
Well, Metrotown (same thing, it's officially called 'Metropolis at Metrotown', but everyone calls it Metrotown, no-one calls it Metropolis) is a (pretty large, and *extremely* popular) *indoor* mall. And, to the point, one at which management for some inexplicable reason keeps the HVAC set to "freaking tropical" all winter. The fact that probably about half the people who are there got there on transit and thus had to deal with the outdoor temperature and thus are probably wearing three layers they can't easily take off and carry and thus are melting in the 25 degree heat doesn't ever seem to have made it through to them.
> Metrotown (same thing, it's officially called 'Metropolis at Metrotown', but everyone calls it Metrotown, no-one calls it Metropolis)
Well, yeah, but if I had put "Metrotown" some spotty train spotting nit picker would have sprouted up to point out that it is really called Metropolis. :D
You cannot win.
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