Cinema dispays running hot?

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jgbxjgbx
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
I just bought a 23" Cinema HD display. After about an hour or two of use, I felt the aluminum casing and it was pretty hot to the touch. I was using 2 18" Dell 1800FPs before I switched to the new monitor and they never got this hot before. They have vents all around the back but the casing is plastic. Does the aluminum casing help to dissipate the heat and therefore does not need the vents or am I experiencing something to address to Apple?

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    messiahmessiah Posts: 1,689member
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    I just bought a 23" Cinema HD display. After about an hour or two of use, I felt the aluminum casing and it was pretty hot to the touch. I was using 2 18" Dell 1800FPs before I switched to the new monitor and they never got this hot before. They have vents all around the back but the casing is plastic. Does the aluminum casing help to dissipate the heat and therefore does not need the vents or am I experiencing something to address to Apple?



    Yeah, the aluminium case is like a giant heatsink and is therefore meant to get hot. It has to get hot in order to dissapate the heat to the surrounding environment.



    I've never felt a 20" get too hot, but at full brightness both the 23" and 30"ers get pretty hot.
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