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Not to mention that the entire casing of the MacBook acts as a heatsink, which is really just awesome design.

by askafriend 11y ago

coldtea 11y ago
Except for the bizarro people that seem to use their Macbooks on their bare laps (doing sauna?)
- izacus 11y ago
  Or you know... sitting outside in 30C summer in shorts. That 80C chasis temperature then somehow isn't as fun anymore. Current rMBP is unusable outside in summer due to hot chasis... my previous Dell XPS didn't have this issue.
  - coldtea 11y ago
    >Or you know... sitting outside in 30C summer in shorts. Well, anyone that wears shorts and sandals and is over 20, deserves it. >Current rMBP is unusable outside in summer due to hot chasis... Maybe sit on a table? I use mine in a country that frequently gets 38-40 oC, and in a country that is constantly Lousiana-summer level heat and humidity (Singapore) and never had much of a problem. Or one could use any kind of towel or pad below their laptop. Kind of reminds me of the Louis CK routine about people complaining about trivial things (e.g. the food) while flying, sitting on a chair in the sky, across thousands of miles, in a few hours (something that just 3-4 generations ago took days or even months, discomfort and a few deaths along the way). We now have undreamt-of power in our PCs or even mobile phones (power which used to take a device as big as a house and with its own cooling infrastructure), and we complain for them being uncomfortamble to have on our bare laps...
    - jtreminio 11y ago
      > and we complain for them being uncomfortamble to have on our bare laps... "lap"tops.
      - JonnieCache 11y ago
        Isn't that why they started marketing them as "notebooks"? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/22/man_burns_penis_with_laptop/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/22/man_burns_penis_with...
        csixty4 11y ago
        Heat, definitely. Also, that was the time you started seeing 17"+ notebooks on the high end. One of my wife's friends bought a 20" "laptop" for her electrical engineering work. It looked comical on her lap, but was awesome for bringing work home on.
      - coldtea 11y ago
        People also wear "wifebeaters" but we don't expect them to beat their wives in them. Also "laptop" is an american term. The rest of the world calls them something closer to "portable".
        FreeFull 11y ago
        "laptop" is what they're called in Polish too
        coldtea 11y ago
        Only if you mean, "they sometimes use the american term". Because otherwise the polish term is "komputer przenośny" (portable, movable, etc computer).
    - oblio 11y ago
      > Well, anyone that wears shorts and sandals and is over 20, deserves it. He only said "shorts". You know, adults can wear shorts as well.
      - coldtea 11y ago
        Yes, if they have juvenile clothing sense. They can also wear baseball hats and other things -- after all it's a free country.
        someone_welsh 11y ago
        Sorry, I felt the need to respond to this. Why are shorts juvenile? They are a perfectly rational and sane climatic adaptation of clothing, allowing decent airflow over a human body. To decry shorts as juvenile is sympotmatic of simple minded attitudes that lead to people in warm climates spending the hottest part of the day wearing full suits in fully glazed boxes which need to be energy intensively air conditioned so that they don't die. This is not a sensible path for society to take
        oblio 11y ago
        I don't live in the "free country" (I'm guessing you mean the US). There's more to shorts than this: http://www.sandalandsoxer.co.uk/linus+andrew.jpg http://www.sandalandsoxer.co.uk/linus+andrew.jpg I'm from Europe and especially during the summer you can see people dressed like this: http://www.menfashionhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/men-cargo-shorts-5.jpeg http://www.menfashionhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/men-... Some of them even go to work like this, especially if they don't work directly with customers and their companies don't have business attire requirements.
        coldtea 11y ago
        The latter is barely better though. Gives the "still lives with his parents" or "just out of college" vibe...
- kbody 11y ago
  Or if you're are resting your palm. Cold on winter, hot on summer, not really great UX.
greggman 11y ago
My MBP is the hottest machine I've ever owned. Run any game on it and not only is it too hot to put on my lap it's too hot to touch the keyboard. It actually stings my fingers

Not to mention that the entire casing of the MacBook acts as a heatsink, which is really just awesome design.

coldtea 11y ago

Except for the bizarro people that seem to use their Macbooks on their bare laps (doing sauna?)

izacus 11y ago
Or you know... sitting outside in 30C summer in shorts. That 80C chasis temperature then somehow isn't as fun anymore. Current rMBP is unusable outside in summer due to hot chasis... my previous Dell XPS didn't have this issue.
- coldtea 11y ago
  >Or you know... sitting outside in 30C summer in shorts. Well, anyone that wears shorts and sandals and is over 20, deserves it. >Current rMBP is unusable outside in summer due to hot chasis... Maybe sit on a table? I use mine in a country that frequently gets 38-40 oC, and in a country that is constantly Lousiana-summer level heat and humidity (Singapore) and never had much of a problem. Or one could use any kind of towel or pad below their laptop. Kind of reminds me of the Louis CK routine about people complaining about trivial things (e.g. the food) while flying, sitting on a chair in the sky, across thousands of miles, in a few hours (something that just 3-4 generations ago took days or even months, discomfort and a few deaths along the way). We now have undreamt-of power in our PCs or even mobile phones (power which used to take a device as big as a house and with its own cooling infrastructure), and we complain for them being uncomfortamble to have on our bare laps...
  - jtreminio 11y ago
    > and we complain for them being uncomfortamble to have on our bare laps... "lap"tops.
    - JonnieCache 11y ago
      Isn't that why they started marketing them as "notebooks"? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/22/man_burns_penis_with_laptop/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/11/22/man_burns_penis_with...
      - csixty4 11y ago
        Heat, definitely. Also, that was the time you started seeing 17"+ notebooks on the high end. One of my wife's friends bought a 20" "laptop" for her electrical engineering work. It looked comical on her lap, but was awesome for bringing work home on.
    - coldtea 11y ago
      People also wear "wifebeaters" but we don't expect them to beat their wives in them. Also "laptop" is an american term. The rest of the world calls them something closer to "portable".
      - FreeFull 11y ago
        "laptop" is what they're called in Polish too
        coldtea 11y ago
        Only if you mean, "they sometimes use the american term". Because otherwise the polish term is "komputer przenośny" (portable, movable, etc computer).
  - oblio 11y ago
    > Well, anyone that wears shorts and sandals and is over 20, deserves it. He only said "shorts". You know, adults can wear shorts as well.
    - coldtea 11y ago
      Yes, if they have juvenile clothing sense. They can also wear baseball hats and other things -- after all it's a free country.
      - someone_welsh 11y ago
        Sorry, I felt the need to respond to this. Why are shorts juvenile? They are a perfectly rational and sane climatic adaptation of clothing, allowing decent airflow over a human body. To decry shorts as juvenile is sympotmatic of simple minded attitudes that lead to people in warm climates spending the hottest part of the day wearing full suits in fully glazed boxes which need to be energy intensively air conditioned so that they don't die. This is not a sensible path for society to take
      - oblio 11y ago
        I don't live in the "free country" (I'm guessing you mean the US). There's more to shorts than this: http://www.sandalandsoxer.co.uk/linus+andrew.jpg http://www.sandalandsoxer.co.uk/linus+andrew.jpg I'm from Europe and especially during the summer you can see people dressed like this: http://www.menfashionhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/men-cargo-shorts-5.jpeg http://www.menfashionhub.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/men-... Some of them even go to work like this, especially if they don't work directly with customers and their companies don't have business attire requirements.
        coldtea 11y ago
        The latter is barely better though. Gives the "still lives with his parents" or "just out of college" vibe...
kbody 11y ago
Or if you're are resting your palm. Cold on winter, hot on summer, not really great UX.

greggman 11y ago

My MBP is the hottest machine I've ever owned. Run any game on it and not only is it too hot to put on my lap it's too hot to touch the keyboard. It actually stings my fingers