Many people who have called Apple to complain about excessive heat coming from their newly purchased computers have been told that the MacBook and the MacBook Pro are in fact Notebook computers and not Laptop computers. This article details why they are totally full of it.
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Member since:2005-07-06
The melting temperature of silicon is quite a bit above 95C 
Actually, up to 100C is within spec for the Core Duo. Intel has always rated its chips higher than AMD has, and it rates its laptop chips higher than its desktop ones.
As for the Macbook, yeah it gets hot, but if you get a normal one, you can use it comfortably on your lap unless its touching your bare skin or something. "Normal" is an operative word here, since the temps on these systems seem to vary a lot. Mine idles in the 40s, and sits loaded in the 60s. I heard of ones that get a lot hotter than that, though both Macbooks I tried got the same temps. In all, using it isn't any more uncomfortable than the Inspiron 8200 the Macbook replaced, though since that was a Pentium-4 laptop, that's not saying much
One more point. The machines will probably get a bit cooler once Apple figures out how to idle the CPU at 1GHz. With the present firmware, the CPU never goes below 1.5 GHz, which is high for idle speed.
Edited 2006-06-17 04:32
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http://www.appledefects.com/images/94celcius-macbook.jpg
they have pictures that document the temperature, as do sites like intelmactemps.com
the macbooks run outrageously hot, mine included.
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2005-08-13
In that "article" - bloggy thing IMO - it says 95 degrees - at that temperature the thing should be melting .
The heat will I guess be mostly created by the CPU & 95 degrees is a temperature modern CPUs are long dead at .
How can it be so hot & the sytem still fine ?
Overheating will not improve the hardware life & relaiablilty .
If these computers are designed for standstill - happily sitting somewhere - then they can throw in some proper big drives - right ?
:)