Laptops unsafe for laps...

Apple recommends... "Do not leave the bottom of your MacBook Pro in contact with your lap or any surface of your body for extended periods. Prolonged contact with your body could cause discomfort and potentially a burn"

http://gearlog.com/blogs/gearlog/archive/2006/05/17/Usersmanual.aspx

very nice apple...

 

at least Apple admits it. There are quite a few manufacturers that never bother warning you with laptop bottoms that get extremely hot. Besides, apple buyers will buy them anyway, because Starbucks has tables.

 

it may be true, but I reckon it realy is an unncessary warning. You should really be able to tell if your lap is burning or not. It will be obvious!!! Looking at this thread an Abaxter's review on the mac book, saying that the lappy was overheating far too often and far too much, I think this overheating issue is becoming a serious issue for the first batch of these macs.

 

i went to an apple store and picked up the macbook that had been on and running playing movies and what not for at least 6 hours, it was warm, but i dont see it burning me in any way shape or form, not even close

its just there so if some idiot decides he wants to abuse the legal system and sue apple they already have a reason to dismiss the case

 

Reminds me of the Seinfield episode where Kramer burns himself with coffee and he sues Classic

 

The macbook probably could burn someone if it's been running full load for about an hour...but someone would have to be an idiot to not notice the heat to the point where they got burned.

There are a lot of idiots out there...a lot. Unfortunately some learned how to sue. Apple is just trying to avoid the same kind of idiots that filed a class action lawsuit over some scratches on their ipod nano...scratches!

The cure would be to wait for rev. 2 of the macbooks. I think Apple is pretty good nowadays about addressing shoddy products. Ofcourse, I suppose if no "idiots" complained, then Apple wouldn't do anything to fix their product...hmm.

 

I'm sure this heating problem will be solved very soon. Often, the first batch produced of an electronic product are usually faulty in one way or another. The Xbox 360 for example, there was a problem with the AV output on the first batch Microsoft produced.

 

I don't see why this "heat problem" is being treated like an epidemic. If it doesn't work properly, Apple will fix or exchange it, right?

I'm a little uneducated on Macs; I just ordered my first one (the MacBook) a few days ago.

 

Most likely because it is getting spread by people who actually doesn't own the product but there were issues in the beginning.

Nothing makes sensation or spreads around as bad news

 

My macbook has gotten pretty hot in all periods of prolonged usage. It is in the back right corner or the notebook. If you put your finger along the groove along the esc, tab, caps lock, shift key, you can feel the heat coming from underneath the buttons.

 

ya, thats where the copper heatsink is that is transferring the heat away from the cpu, gpu, etc...

 

Does the MB or MB pro have a cooling fan? The MB is dead quiet. And no vents are visible other than the speakers.

 

I figured as much.

I played with a few MacBook pros last night and they were warm, but not hot... at all. I would figure the MacBook to be a lot cooler than the pro, being that the MacBook is made out of plastic and not aluminum. That is, if the MacBook isn't defective.

 

Funny that there was a warning made in the manual. Doesn't this mean that users can't blame Apple for a hot mbp? Well... since it's already printed and warns the user that it WILL get hot. The heat IS a problem though. On some models it just gets warm, so I assume some users got these models. On other models it gets very hot and I also assume other users got these hot models. Now heat is a subjective thing but the ones I tried at the stores were hot. When I mean hot, I mean it's like touching the cpu heatsink in an opened computer while its been runnin for a day. The macbook I tried the other day at the Apple store didn't have any heat problems though, but iChat sure wasn't as speedy as it was on the mbp. Probably due to the integrated gfx.