I arrived at the scene about 10 minutes after dispatch got the call. It was easy
enough to determine the cause of death. But the real mystery is why it happened.
And maybe we could keep it from happening again. I've seen this kind of
thing before. Sometimes things get rough. They hit the ground, never get up
again. Open and shut case. But this was
different. Based on a screw pattern, looks like there might have been a
struggle. What do you think, Evan? Need
to look around a bit more. Make yourself useful. Go question the
owner.
The suspect claims it was self-defense.
Look, I didn't mean to. Things got heated. I had to protect myself.
And call me crazy, but I believe there's more to it than
that. The Vic was young, wellb built,
fast, and powerful. A looker, too. This
was a gaming notebook with all the latest pies. A damn shame. Looking on
the bottom, I could see clear as day. The plastic had melted and warped. High
performance comes at a cost, after all. Mobile processes can hit 80°. Pair it
with a discrete GPU, but he has to go somewhere.
And finally,
so here's what happened. See, the suspect was playing a game of Bioshock
in his chair. And the heat from the notebook made him uncomfortable, and the
strain in his neck from looking down for so long caused him to try to balance the
notebook on his knee. And
then, so it was fallen.
Nah, this notebook was still running when it hit the ground. But that didn't
last for long. Now it was already dying.
What do you notice about the room? Uh, it's warm. Like you left the heater on
full blast.
That combined with a high performance CPU running hot, you got a recipe for a
long and premature death. Now, this notebook is going to
meet its maker sooner or later. Fall.
If he had a notebook cooler, he could have raised the notebook to a more comfortable height and kept the hot
surface away from his skin. The 180 mm
fan would have kept it from overheating all the time. This could have been
prevented. Why didn't you use a cooler? I didn't know. I didn't know coolers
existed. You do now. Book them, Sam. I'd like to
thank you guys for putting up with my bad acting and my bad accent. And I'd
also like to thank Cooler Master for sponsoring this fun little PSA about the
benefits of notebook coolers featuring their SF17. I hope you guys like this
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