Smoking Venue And Hoster

[Roy Dennis]

I suppose the next thing we will see marketed is a filter to fit to the air intake on laptops.
Here in the UK smoking is banned in any public places so unless you smoke yourself at home should not present any problems.
More of a worry would be someone spilling their drink over your computer.

Roy.

[bryant]

Originally Posted by ddouglass

Musicman51, if you look at the design of the cooling board, it is actually blowing air along the bottom (outside) of the case to disipate heat from there and not actually blowing air directly into the laptop.
I can see if a computer is in a small room with someone directly around the computer how smoke would eventually build up enough to cause a problem, but in a much larger room such as a bar or restuarant I don't see this as a problem for it.
Texas is another of those states who have not adopted a statewide smoking ban, though most of the major cities have. So we deal with it too. However, as a smoker and one who has smoked around his computers since home computers became available, I have never seen any kind of tar build up on any of them except on the outside. Unless you had your cigarette directly in front of the air intake it would be very hard for the tar to travel inside of the computer.

Mine blows away from the openings, so as to create a negative pressure so the warm air inside can be replaced by the "clean"(room) air. Either way it is done having inside air (warm) needing to be replaced with outside air (cooler) to have any cooling effect, but in a smoke-filled room the outside air is "filled" with smoke and is drawn through over and over. (the number of air changes is one factor that determines the cooling rate).

I'm also pretty sure that most companies that manufacture products that are highly competitive (such as computers and laptops) that Apple, Inc. has taken hundreds (if not thousands) of well documented quality control tests in controlled environments that led them to make their decision about the warantee coverage.

[billyo]

sorry to say that i do smoke and i smoke when i'm working around my laptops/pc's ( in the garage) and i havent had any problems with it, i just got done upgrading the hhd. memory and replacing the nickel cell battery on my friends old pc( Dell Dimension 4600) and she doesn't smoke, but her pc has more dust in and around it , even her keyboard has built up ( dust, hair etc. ) i had to use my air compressor to get rid of all the dust ,so i don't think smoking will harm computers...

[bryant]

Originally Posted by billyo

sorry to say that i do smoke and i smoke when i'm working around my laptops/pc's ( in the garage) and i havent had any problems with it, i just got done upgrading the hhd. memory and replacing the nickel cell battery on my friends old pc( Dell Dimension 4600) and she doesn't smoke, but her pc has more dust in and around it , even her keyboard has built up ( dust, hair etc. ) i had to use my air compressor to get rid of all the dust ,so i don't think smoking will harm computers...

Maybe not, but I can't say for sure as I wasn't taking part in the quality control tests at the factory either.

Most likely, Apple had many computers in a controlled environment compared to many computers in a "smoking" environment, and a certain percentage of those even in the controlled environment still failed or problems arose before their standard warrantee guideline time. A slightly higher percentage than expected either had problems or failed in the smoking environment. Also, before the test began, a set of criteria was most likely established ( a cut-off percentage of failures) to determine if there was a significant difference in the two environments. If a statistical difference was shown to be 95% likely (this involves complex engineering statistics), then their original hypothesis is considered valid, and they felt that action be taken based on that.

I know, I sound like a know it all, but I did this kind of work in a manufacturing company a few years back.