Cook Your Breakfast With MacBook

Kisom writes "Everyone knows Apple isn't famous for their cold notebooks. Dan Lurie however discovered it was possible to cook eggs on the bottom of his MacBook. Even though it took three times as long to cook the egg, Apple should probably be concerned."

It's a joke

[CtrlPhreak]

This is more satire taken seriously by an idiot on the web. The link in the article above is a blog that picked up another blog where the guy clearly says he's making a joke. This is like when the onion is taken seriously...

That aside, props to the Egg MacMuffin joke...

Re:This is faked - and really a joke.

[Golias]

Obviously. The Slashdot editors have proven, once again, that they suck at what they do. Actually, worse than that, they don't actually DO what they do!

For fuck's sake, the "article" is shorter than most emo kids' blog entries, and says "This is a joke" in bold, oversized text at the end!

VA Linux should fire every last /. editor, and hire a whole new staff. They don't need to be geeks, or even slightly tech-aware. They just need to be literate, and it would be a huge step up.

cooking forensics

[pikine]

I know the article is a joke, but I could tell that from just looking at the picture. If he really cooked an egg on his MacBook, he would need a bigger foil, otherwise the moment you crush the egg, it would spread and stain the uncovered parts of the laptop. The foil is too small to cover the spread of one egg. Thus, it is apparent from the picture that the egg was cooked before it is placed on the foil.

blame fashion and wimpiness

[Anonymous Coward]

The fixation on light/powerful/ultra thin and chic has lead to a plethora of problems with notebook computers. Battery life, still dismal in 2006 because every battery advancement which should have gone to extended useage times has been completely negated by making them increasingly smaller to reduce weight. Heat dissipation has gotten worse (now they have to use fans when orginally most laptops got by without fans using passive cooling) because of packing so much stuff inside a too closed up case. Slightly thicker with better bottom to out the back airflow, using normal thermodynamics would help with the heat problem immensely. But no-o-o-o-o, can't do those things because it would result in a slightly heavier laptop and a little bulkier and that just won't do, wouldn't be fashionable. So now we get li-on batteries that can explode or catch fire and laptops continue to get too hot to use as laptops,so they have to call them "notebooks" or some other dodgy marketing name to help diffuse potential lawsuits from people actually holding them in their laps.

Wimpy users demanding wimpy laptops=get what you deserve. Can't tote an single extra pound because your girly man arms can't handle the temporary stress going from the cab to the starbucks table? Too bad, suffer crummy battery life. Can't tote something a little thicker, insist that "thinner is better" when from an engineering standpoint of getting rid of heat it *isn't*? Too bad, suffer overheating. And pay an extra 500 to 1,000 dollars for the privelege of being commercially identified in marketing databanks as "wimpy". And double too bad that apple contiues to slide into an also-ran company, forgoing good engineering to be replaced entirely with "style". Style has its place, and that is AFTER engineering. Sticking it in first place results in this sort of nonsense. Apple used to have (and I used to be a fanboy but not any longer) engineering as job #1 at Apple and you paid for it, but it was there and worth it. Ya, you got a decent looking box usually, but it performed as advertised and wasdn't a commodity POS with curb feelers and fins on it. Now the fashion fetishists have *completely* taken over, so I predict an eventual decline of Apple (I never did before but I will now), even if they are riding high with iPod right now. Going to intel chips will not help them, nothing will if they keep fashion first. If they change back, they'll survive, if they don't, SGI-ville for them. Pretty, but losing it on where the computing rubber meets the road to stay "looking mah-ve-lous"

Re:More than just the MacBook

[megaditto]

Now the problem is that your battery will only last 2 hours or so with this new 'update'. Yeah, back in the day the original 'Toilet Seat' iBooks could deliver 8-10 hours battery time with no problems exactly because they had no fan.

That's the one thing I cannot stand about Apple: they keep tweaking settings with their updates without giving users any options to adjust them afterwards.

Like disabling SuspendToDisk ('hibernate') option in 9.0->9.0.4 update, removing 'swappiness' control from 10.1, disabling iTunes internet filesharing, etc.

Oh, and microsofting their users by requiring the f***** CD keys.

Re:Fiddling with the fans

[Kichigai Mentat]

Yeah, but you're missing the point. I don't want to spend $60 on an overglorified box with a fan. I'd rather do what this guy wants to do: start my fan at a lower temperature (say, 125F instead of 150F), so that I can keep my laptop at a lower temperature.

Besides, the last thing I want is to have to carry around more junk with my laptop, let alone another thing that requires MORE batteries or another power cord.