Three installer questions

[Scott Dier]

It completely depends on which laptop it is, those were the old i8k 
based laptops.  I don't think any of the newer laptops are controlled 
solely by software.

If they are, let me know which models, I'd like to avoid them. :)

Soren Hansen wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:52:41PM -0400, Mitch Golden wrote:
>> 2) I've recently learned that on Dell laptops, the CPU fan is
>> controlled by the software, not hardware.
> 
> I don't know about all Dell laptops, but the one I had a few years ago
> was indeed hardware controlled, but could be overridden by software.
> Should the software fail, THAT's when you could fry your machine. In
> that case, the safer choice is to leave it to the hardware.  
> 
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