This morning I had to run an errand and after that I was going to drop by the coffee house and have some caffeine. I threw the Lenovo IdeaPad U110 into my bag and headed out the door. The U110 was in Sleep mode when I threw it in the bag which is important so remember that. I ran the errand and less than an hour later I hit the coffee shop like I do many times a week. I got my beverage of choice and sat down at the community work table with 3 other people. One of the other shop regulars was there and asked if I had the "new Lenovo" with me to show the others. It was their lucky day since it was sitting quietly in my bag.
I knew when I opened the zipper compartment that something was wrong as it was HOT! I pulled the U110 out of the bag and it was hot enough to fry an egg on the lid, something that is just not good. I opened the lid to let it cool off and it was already on and waiting for me to log in. Not good at all. Once I got logged in and the desktop appeared I get the Vista dialog box that tells me the computer had unexpectedly restarted. That’s why it had turned itself on in my bag, while sitting there asleep Vista crashed and restarted and it sat there waiting for me to log in for a very long time. The metal casing was incredibly hot because the computer was on with the lid closed and it was in a thermal sack called my gadget bag. The battery was at 50% so it ate through it in a hurry as it was on with no power management. How can Vista crash while a PC is asleep? And if it crashes while closed why does it restart automatically, and unsafely in this case? Come on, the OS should protect the equipment, not the other way around.
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