Cook Your Breakfast With MacBook 118
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."
Why do we link to blogs? (Score:4, Interesting)
My Macbook burns (Score:4, Interesting)
I have experienced heat before, but not this kind. I wonder what the airports say about the new portable egg toasters.
Try running BootCamp and Vista - Dangerously Hot! (Score:5, Interesting)
And yes, it is blasphemy that I am running Vista on a Mac and its unsupported blah blah blah blah, but either way the Macbook Pro's still run way too hot and don't ever seem to run their fan. Their own documentation tells you not to use your *laptop* on your lap, which seems quite stupid to me. Whats the point of a mobile computer if I have to be tied to a *DESK*.
Re:Uh, guys? (Score:5, Interesting)
I still have fond memories of my first Am386DX. It was spread around the desk surface with the more critical components bolted to it (so we could use it to test boards and components). A few days after we put it into action we found out that the CPU heat sink (this was in the days before CPUs had fans) perfectly doubles up as a coffee warmer for one of those neat little copper kettles used for Turkish coffee. Just the right form factor (the later CPUs became too big for that).
I also remember burning my hand on the first slotted Celery after forgetting to plug the fan in. The scar is still visible, because I got my hand trapped in the case against it (it hurt like hell). I also remember cooking eggs on one of these after moderately overclocking it. Amazingly enough it was still working throughout the process. In those days (P2/P3) Intel used to have nearly perfect thermal throttle which prevented CPUs from baking. It lost it sometimes around P4.
Frankly, I would not be surprised if an egg will cook on the bottom of a new Mac. I am pretty sure that it will cook on the bottom of my HP if I run a make bzImage on it and turn the cpufreq off. Do not see why the Mac will be any different.
Re:Cooking with technology (Score:2, Interesting)
KFG
Re:Apple looking at other markets (Score:3, Interesting)
Apple is coming out with a previously unannounced, now leaked, new product, the Egg MacMuffin.
Maybe they should cool their laptops with an Egg MacMuffin Fan?
Disclaimer: my new 17" MacBook Pro actually seems to run cooler than my old 17" 1.33MHz G4. And the fan hardly ever comes on at all. Wth my old G4 I would somtimes set it to "reduced power" mode just to keep the fan from running.
Re:So Sad (Score:3, Interesting)
But Macs did things that were not easily available on other machines. For example, I've had multiple desktops on my Macs for years. Only recently (last couple years) has this become stable in XP (though some apps still are not multiple screen aware - E.g., some Java apps, full screen applications, etc.). This has worked for as long as I can remember in Unix, but recently it has actually been problematic for some configurations (dual head on Linux laptops, for example).
Don't get me wrong -- I loved my Amigas and Ataris, but there are clearly areas where the Mac led the pack.
Mac History Lesson for the Forgetful (Score:3, Interesting)
As memory fades, we tend to remember the PCs that have lived on until today, notably the IBM PC and the Apple Mac. But just because these PCs are around now does not mean that they were necessarily the better computers then. Far from it.
At the time of the Amiga's release, Apple was still selling the monochrome, single-tasking Macintosh and for roughly three times the price, and the Apple bosses were sick with worry.
In fact, Apple considered buying the Amiga and selling it as their own product. Look it up. I'd recommend reading On The Edge [commodorebook.com] if you need a reference.