Powerbook exposed to sunlight?

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mitlovmitlov
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
There are two places in my apartment where I can work on my computer. In my bedroom (little dark hobbit-hole), or at my dinner table (looking out of a large, west-facing window). I prefer to work at my dinner table, because there's more room and because having a window is nice. However, in the late afternoon, a lot of sunlight comes streaming in through the window. Would it in any way harm the Powerbook to be exposed to that? My apartment doesn't get excessively hot--I have air conditioning--but the back of the machine gets hit by sunlight for a few hours on end.

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    pyr3pyr3 Posts: 946member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Mitlov

    There are two places in my apartment where I can work on my computer. In my bedroom (little dark hobbit-hole), or at my dinner table (looking out of a large, west-facing window). I prefer to work at my dinner table, because there's more room and because having a window is nice. However, in the late afternoon, a lot of sunlight comes streaming in through the window. Would it in any way harm the Powerbook to be exposed to that? My apartment doesn't get excessively hot--I have air conditioning--but the back of the machine gets hit by sunlight for a few hours on end.



    The sunlight might start to bleach the color maybe, but I'm not sure about that on the PowerBooks...
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    mitlovmitlov Posts: 130member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by pyr3

    The sunlight might start to bleach the color maybe, but I'm not sure about that on the PowerBooks...



    I don't think sunlight can bleach aluminum
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    pyr3pyr3 Posts: 946member
    Mitlov

    Quote:

    I don't think sunlight can bleach aluminum



    Well, you never said what model it was. :P
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    mitlovmitlov Posts: 130member
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    Originally posted by pyr3

    Mitlov





    Well, you never said what model it was. :P



    Sorry, I'm very new to Apples and I had assumed from what I saw shopping that all iBooks were white plastic, and all PowerBooks were aluminum. Clearly that was an erroneous assumption.
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    kickahakickaha Posts: 8,760member
    No, you're correct in that, but there are a lot of older black plastic PowerBooks still running and kicking out there. I have a five year old PowerBook that still does light duty around the house.
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    pyr3pyr3 Posts: 946member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by Mitlov

    Sorry, I'm very new to Apples and I had assumed from what I saw shopping that all iBooks were white plastic, and all PowerBooks were aluminum. Clearly that was an erroneous assumption.



    The older models were Titanium or plastic depending on how old you go.
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  • Reply 7 of 7
    kingofsomewherehotkingofsomewherehot Posts: 4,185member
    sort of a "vampire" themed laptop ? it may turn to dust if exposed to sunlight...
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