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Never place a laptop on carpet - I would recommend that you never place a laptop on carpet. If you only place it there for a couple of minutes, then that shouldn't be a problem. However, if you sit there and work on your computer for over 5 minutes, then your laptop will probably overheat. The reason is because carpet fills the air gap as it conforms to the shape of the laptop. Therefore, it will block the flow of warm air trying to escape from the laptop's cooling system. And to make matters worse, the carpet acts like an insulator and bounces the heat back into the laptop. As you know, I always recommend a laptop cooler for any laptop, but even if you don't purchase a laptop cooler, please at least refrain from subjecting your expensive laptop to carpet-heat-torture-chamber.
Other side effects of Carpet include static electricity. Since a laptop computer contains many delicate electronic components, static electricity can be as deadly to a laptop as heat.
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