Laptops and your body...

me too it heats up my legs

I’ve heard for males the rays can actually do damage and make men impotent or sterile

It can mess up semen and sperm chemical process

I dont have enough medical knowledge to claim how bad or ok it is to have a laptop on your lap, but personally for most of the time i dont have mine on my lap. at this very moment it is on my lap, but it has been turned on for the last 3 days without even a reboot and the bottom is quite cool, only some mild warmth round where the battery is.

if there is a problem with radiation and heat and other things i expect it will soon be solved, i remember back in the 80’s and 90’s that old computer screens where quite harmful, you even needed to use a special radiation shield on them if you was using the computer a lot, and that problem eventually went away. so i would say: write to your manufacturer and tell them about your concerns and let them know you would be more likely to purchase a safe laptop than the current ones if such a product existed, if there is enough demand they will supply.

I’ve never placed a laptop on my lap. I always have it on a table or desk.

If it’s bad, I’m going to turn into a mutant one day.

@rangerr One day? * giggles *

Good answers, I’m just curious because I tend to use my laptop on my lap quite a bit. It makes sense that they would make them pretty safe though, especially compared to early models. But then again cell phones are supposedly bad for you too. Idk.

I’d say the harm is negligible. Like decades of use (might?) cause some skin damage? Either way, I live life on the edge. No pillow under my laptop ;)

@crazyzo2000 My laptop sits on my stomach when I am lying in bed. My kids are going to be mutants too. I’ll let you know in a few years.

Ha yeah, the pillow is mostly for comfort though in reality :)

And we probably won’t really know until yearssss from now when everything turns all “children of men” on us. :P

It’s the kids and tweens using this stuff (laptops, cell phones) who are going to have the most problems since their bodies or more susceptible.

I’ve never been able to find a chair/sitting position comfortable enough to have my laptop in my lap & be able to do anything other than watch video. @rangerr Their eyes will be two iChat cams, mouth replaced with mono-speaker, instead of ears, two little microphone nubs. But don’t worry, they will easily find jobs as being the new high tech fast food drive-thru machine you tell your order to.

Ever since I got a laptop in 2007 I put it on my lap, b/c that’s what it is, a LAP top. In the past three years my wee wee has grown 4 sizes. Should I be worried?

@mrrich724 nah, just switch to loose fitting boxers & maybe see if the girlfriend/wife wants to set the laptop on her chest when watching movies.

@rpmpseudonym Awwww. They sound so cute. I can’t wait!

for the drive-thru machine babies, or mrrich’s wife boobs to get bigger?

Uhhh. Both!

I’ll ask her. Maybe I’ll just ask her to use the desktop computer so I don’t have to wait three years. I’m sure the rays from that machine are more powerful. LOL

@crazyzo2000 Just wondering, does having a pillow under your computer make it more likely to overheat? All the laptops in my family (all seven of them) have a lot of their ventilation ducts and fans underneath, and a soft surface may smother them.

I’m pretty sure it’s just in back. I have a MacBook Pro

They frequencies used in computers are relatively low – there is no “radiation” type of emission in any dangerous levels. Mostly what you experience is simply heat. If the system is using WiFi or Bluetooth then there will be a bit more emission that can be possibly risky. If you are concerned, turn off the WiFi & Bluetooth.

I can’t tell you how bad it is for you, but I can say it is bad for your laptop.
The battery gets too hot. The laptop was built with those four little feet on the bottom to allow air to circulate for cooling. If you put it on a pillow you are preventing free air flow and are raising the temp of the motherboard and battery shortening its life. Your “8 hour” battery will become a 3 hour battery if you keep it up.

Put it on a hard surface like a board or a hard cover book. Anything to allow air to flow.
If your legs are getting hot, just think what that is doing to your PC. Avoid heat damage.

one time my laptop got hot so i turned it off :O