Normal operating temp

Hi all,
Quick question. What's the normal operating temp of a Powerbook G4 (I believe I have the FW 800 model) after it's been running for a while? Mine gets particularly hot (140 F according to the SysStat widget) and it's just occuring to me that perhaps my fan is broken. Is there anyway I can tell if the fan is broken? Thanks.

Hi Elizabeth..
You can do the hardware check if you think that your fan is too laud. But 140F is completly normal if you PB is working hard. I also posted similar post here when I got my PB, but then some guy wrote that it's normal when the machine is used for long time and with high load. He also wrote that Apple somewhere claims that it will never go over 143F or something like that.... anyways when I monitored mine it realy didn't exceed that number he wrote... so you dont have to worry... I use my PB for music production (at least trying to make someting and it is constantly hot and also sometimes in bad ventilated places and in a year of useage I never had a single problem with it.

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