Apple Sics Lawyers on SomethingAwful 512
bheer writes "Apple has sent a threatening letter to SomethingAwful about a post in its forums that describes how to fix the overheating in some MacBook Pros by applying thermal paste properly, according to a post on Gizmodo. The post includes a brief excerpt from Apple's Service Source Manual which Apple wants removed. Gizmodo continues: 'the real problem [is] that the image shows the extremely sloppy manufacturing process that is causing the MacBook Pro to run at temperatures as high as a 95 degrees Celcius under full load.'"
Thermal paste (Score:4, Funny)
Yep, Apple fucked up this one.
I am confused.. (Score:5, Funny)
Apple Splatters! (Score:4, Funny)
*stands on soap box* Apparently, their voice command program which requires the ESC key to toggle the microphone interferes with any vim commands that require you to escape back into command mode when you are using Darwin, Apple's version of xterm.
Come and get me you lawyer bastards!!!!
PS: Macs are ghey, eat babies, and kill kittens!
Re:The problem is... (Score:5, Funny)
So does Slashdot [imageshack.us].
Re:First revs? whats with Apple (Score:4, Funny)
well, from the sounds of it if you've got a MBP, those hands'd be pretty damned hot. Hotter than any electronics should ever be
Uh-oh... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Karma whore (Score:1, Funny)
Karma slut.
Hmmm.. (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Actually... (Score:5, Funny)
After all, it wasn't engineers that ran HP into the ground.
Apple's legal department uses Microsoft Entourage (Score:5, Funny)
The really interesting thing is that the Apple legal department uses Microsoft Entourage as an e-mail client. Lowtax posted the headers in his response (posted above by someone else).
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Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 19:38:28 -0700
Subject: Urgent Legal Notice from Apple Computer
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even stranger (Score:2, Funny)
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can't cite Folsom v. Marsh (Score:5, Funny)
Funny comment from the forum: (Score:2, Funny)
Sounds like Econ 101 class."
Heretics (Score:5, Funny)
Praise Jobs the Enlightener, the Finder,
Re:Fair use? (Score:2, Funny)