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A long time ago (roughly 2012?) I owned a Macbook Pro for a brief time I was running Windows 7 in Bootcamp and I wanted to set up Gentoo Linux in a virtual mac
by IntelMiner 7y ago
A long time ago (roughly 2012?) I owned a Macbook Pro for a brief time
I was running Windows 7 in Bootcamp and I wanted to set up Gentoo Linux in a virtual machine for some Linux work I needed to do
I left the machine on my desk to compile a kernel. Basic wooden desk, nothing underneath or around it. No problems there
Roughly 5 minutes later, the system had reached what Speccy reported to be a scorching 117 degrees celsius! (242.6F)
I immediately shut it down and left it to cool off, then asked around on an IRC full of various flavours of IT people (programmers etc)
The horrifying answers I got were that this was INTENTIONAL and that "the system acts as a giant heat sink" which is why it didn't power off after crossing a threshold
As far as I understand it, running it under Bootcamp also disabled any kind of thermal throttling and forced the more power hungry "Radeon" graphics chip to be used, further adding to the problem
- chillacy 7y agoI remember those macbooks got so hot that it was physically painful to touch the metal under the screen near the magsafe charging port. That was fun.
- geerlingguy 7y agoI have forever been leery of hitting the F4-F8 buttons because of the 2007 Core 2 Duo model. I used it for a couple years and remember at least 3-4 times when I decided to rest a finger up there and ended up getting scorched.
- unicornfinder 7y agoYup I remember this. The area above the F keys would downright burn.
- StavrosK 7y agoWell, it was 117 C. If you spilled water on it, it would boil. Hell, boiling water would cool the machine.
- saagarjha 7y agoIf you spilled water directly on the CPU, maybe.
- Lammy 7y agoThis is why Apple stopped describing their portables as “laptops” some time in the early 2000s. They didn’t want the legal risk of somebody burning themselves after it was implied to be safe to use on their lap.
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- Traster 7y agoI have some golden memories from university playing Unreal Tournament 2004 on my laptop in bootcamp, the added difficulty was that if you touch the metal between the keys it'll burn your finger tips.