minman; the max operating temperature of my player would depend on the operating tempurature range of the hard drive inside. A quick look on Maxtors web site says normal operating temp is 5C - 56C, Operating Mechanical Shock 30Gs, 2ms, there is also some vibration specs but I dunno what they mean. The operating tempuratures are for error free operation. I've run the player in -20C weather with no lost data/errors. Same in the summer time, everything worked well, but I doubt it gets as hot here as it does in Huston. Running the player at a very high temp I would say the worst thing that would happen is errors in the data stream which you would hear as a click, pop, or skip. I believe the specs for laptop hard drives have a higher operating temp and shock sensitivity is higher too, but the price is also higher.


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