I have been sitting next to a bright guy from the UK. He has a brand new MacBook, but because it so hot, he has a Notebook Cooling Pad that looks like this!
Nice that Apple would do such a great job of designing the MacBook that you would need to buy the Cooling Pad to keep from frying you lap! If a Windows hardware vendor did something like this, the criticism would be brutal. But for reasons that are a bit unclear to me, no one bitches about this kind of failed design.
Buzz - it's typical Mac fan myopia - it's been going on for many years. I know - I was a diehard Mac zealot from the Mac 128 through the second generation iMacs before "going over to the dark side" and I used to fall prey to his syndrome myself.
Double standards do exist - you're just not supposed to talk about them in polite company or you are subject to withering scorn and derision.
I thought long and hard about getting a MacBook Pro recently and decided to wait at least until rev 2. I've been bitten by Apple version 1.0 way too many times in the past.
FWIW, my new Dell D620 Core Duo laptop is smokin' fast, not smokin' hot ;^)
Posted by: Marc Orchant | July 26, 2006 at 07:26 PM
Include a chiller for a split of pinot gris and I buy it! Thanks for providing the AO back channel.
Posted by: Dick Rowan | July 27, 2006 at 08:55 AM