hot ibook

timswim78 said:

Isn't your hotspot where the hard drive is located? I know that some guys who were running linux, had this problem and corrected it by updating the linux kernel.

In your situation, does the spot get hot when running OS 9, or does it only get hot when running OS X?

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yuwing said:

i'd stick with OS9. heat from harddrive will slowly kill the harddrive if it is really hot. Also i would install some programs that will monitor the hardrdive temperature.

if it is over 55C, then it should raise some concerns but nothing too much to worry about cause temperature concerns are subjective. some people dont' really care about the temperature of the hardrdive unless it is over 60-70C.

I'm not a mac user for a long time, only recently bought a G4 ibook so i'm not an expert or anything. However, i did deal with some harddrive troubles in my old laptop. I researched and ithink this really applies to your case:

basically, OSX is a big operating system and requires more memory (ram). when you access something that requires more memory than what you have already used, the old memory has to be deleted in order to make space. however, if you want it back, the harddrive has to access it again.
for those who have sufficient memory, the harddrive doesn't need to be spun as the old memory is kept in its place. so therefore, harddrive doesn't need to do any work at all.

Hence, i think u need more ram

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fyrman22 said:

Are you using Virex? Check you activity monitor in Applications->Utilities folder. Chek all running processes. There might be something that is using a lot of your system resources. I had Virex on mine and it was using 76% of my CPU's prossesing power causing it to really heat up. There shouldn't be anything using more than 20% contstantly. But I would check that could be something else too. Good luck..

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