Linked by Adam S on Sat 17th Jun 2006 03:07 UTC, submitted by chr1skearney
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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2006-05-08
Sure!
Because Apples PowerPC based PowerBooks were much warmer than the P4 or K7/K8 based PC laptops... These computers are refered to by their manufacturers as laptops or notebooks, but the customers find them to be "desktop replacements". Very hot, and with little over an hour of battery life.
BTW, I have used the MacBook all week, and it's not that hot. It can get quite hot if you convert movies or render 3D graphics. But who keeps a computer on the lap for a whole 1+ hour render session? With ordinary h.264 playback, web surfing and photo editing it only gets lukewarm.
If you are that picky, lower the core voltage.