Can a laptop survive a desert enviroment?

[Karrde188]

I'm flying out to Burning Man this weekend & I plan on bringing my laptop with me. Not because I actually expect to go online or anything like that. But I'll be visiting lake Tahoe afterwards & once I'm back in civilization, but before I fly home, I plan to download all the podcasts I missed while I was gone.

Will having it out in the desert, even if I keep it wrapped in a towel & never turn it on, kill my laptop??

[BonerJoe]

As long as it doesn't get left in the sun, it should be fine.

[Sam Gunn (since nobody got Admiral Naismith)]

Keep it in the car and you'll be fine.  Have fun at Burning Man and take lots of photos.

[Karrde188]

Thanks guys, & will do.

[Manuel_OKelly]

One of the best things I did at burning man was going to home depot and buying some vent filter material and putting that over the windows of my car. From past experience I knew the dust would get in my car and I wanted to keep the windows open because I store stuff in there. You could also run the laptop inside the car.

However, I only brought my laptop once to burning man, it stayed in the car the whole time I was there, but I did use it to keep in contact on the roadtrips there and back. There really isn't any use for it.

[Bill Brasky]

I keep mine in a steel briefcase when I travel, I don't like it getting smashed around in a soft sided carrier.  Other times, you have no choice but to have strappy backpack-styled baggage.  For that, I got a wheeled drag-along backpack. 

Finding a hotspot is usually not difficult, I think most McDonalds have them now.  I like having web access, because you never know when you'll need a phone number, send an e-mail, or buy a plane ticket if the shit hits the fan.  Its worth carrying the ten-or-so extra pounds. 

[Russell Griswold]

Get yourself this lovely man-purse.

http://www.amazon.com/Stm-Bags-LLC-Screens-Carbon/dp/B000CQXF1S/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1202259783&sr=8-1

[Bill Brasky]

Get yourself this lovely man-purse.

http://www.amazon.com/Stm-Bags-LLC-Screens-Carbon/dp/B000CQXF1S/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1202259783&sr=8-1

You could carry a sandwich in it. 

[Karrde188]

Meh, I'll just keep it in my backpack.

[Alex Libman 15]

Depends on the laptop.  A Panasonic Toughbook can operate at 140F and survive while turned off at 160F.  For an Apple MacBook it's 95F and 113F, respectively.  And my four-year-old Gateway convertible tablet would catch fire at room temperatures if I removed the BIOS overheating protection and ran it at 100% CPU for a few minutes. 

[Russell Griswold]

Get yourself this lovely man-purse.

http://www.amazon.com/Stm-Bags-LLC-Screens-Carbon/dp/B000CQXF1S/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1202259783&sr=8-1

You could carry a sandwich in it. 

You certainly can. A very delicious sandwich.

[Karrde188]

Depends on the laptop.  A Panasonic Toughbook can operate at 140F and survive while turned off at 160F.  For an Apple MacBook it's 95F and 113F, respectively.  And my four-year-old Gateway convertible tablet would catch fire at room temperatures if I removed the BIOS overheating protection and ran it at 100% CPU for a few minutes. 

Mine is a HP Pavilion dv6000 thats 2 years old.

[Alex Libman 15]

Oh, man, that won't work outdoors south of the Mason-Dixon line. 

[Bill Brasky]

Get yourself this lovely man-purse.

http://www.amazon.com/Stm-Bags-LLC-Screens-Carbon/dp/B000CQXF1S/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1202259783&sr=8-1

You could carry a sandwich in it. 

You certainly can. A very delicious sandwich.

I'd like to get a pool cue case to carry a hoagie.

[BonerJoe]

I'd like to get a pool cue case to carry a hoagie.

D, stop making me lol.