Cook breakfast with your MacBook (just kidding)

[11/09/2011: Source link removed, as the site is no longer online.]

Everyone knows that Apple's Intel powered portable lineup gets hot, but this is insane! An enterprising fellow figured out that it would be possible to actually fry an egg on the bottom of his black MacBook. Granted, it probably took something like 3 times as long than if he had used a stove, but that's obviously not the point. For bonus points, keep your coffee warm by placing it on top of your MacBook power adapter.

While obviously a stab at Apple for releasing such hot machines, I think its important to understand the fact that Apple has no control over how hot or cold Intel's processors run. I'm sure the engineers in Cupertino do their best to make the machines run as cool as possible, but there are some things that even the Mac hardware team can't do.

Just as a bit of an update, since this piece has been picked up all over the net: This isn't really serious. Although it is theoretically possible to get egg proteins to congeal from the heat of a MacBook, the guy posted the story as a joke. That is all.

[via UneasySilence]

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Kevinin

Lol, that's too cool - or too hot =) now that would be one more reason, why not to buy this MacBook - although I do like it's design...

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September 15 2006 at 4:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

SurfSpirit

I have a MacBook 2.0 and itÂ´s not very hot, normaly is just warm, and it only get a little hot when I was coding a DVD from an iDVD project that took some hours, even way pretty good temperature (the fans worked), and it is summer here and when I did it was 32 Âº Celcious (weather temperature). So Not that bad at all.

August 25 2006 at 6:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

steve kahn

took the temp of my mac book pro with a culinary laser thermometer---121 degrees F!!!!!!!

August 23 2006 at 9:59 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

charlie

ok, so there from what i've read it looks like the blame for overrheating is split between mac and intel, and nobody here knows which one it is... i think apple really need to release something about this. get to work guys please... my legs hurt...

August 16 2006 at 12:28 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dave

I have had a Compaq with a Sempron chip, a old tiBook, an iBook G4, and now a white macbook. At the time when I am typing this, i have been sitting with the computer in my lap for 2 1/2 hours, and it is warm, but not uncomfortable by any means.
The computer is no hotter than my Compaq laptop was, and it is quieter, and much better looking.
I think that the heat issue was with the first batch of computers, and they have acknowledged the thermal grease issue.

August 09 2006 at 11:30 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

walker

I may be a little old fashioned, but im sticking to my trusty old powerbook G3 lombard untill apple fixes both the heat problem and all my favorite apps are universal
I dont really mind that my computer takes one minute to start up instead of 30 seconds

August 05 2006 at 11:03 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Oliver Starr

In response to #10 allowing the user control the ratio of noise to hear, there's a program called "Centrino Hardware Control" that runs on PC's with .net framework installed that among other things allows you to do exactly that. Other functions include harddrive acoustic control, overclocking and more. I've used it on a number of PC's and havent blown one up yet...

Maybe it could be modified to run on a Mac? And no, I have no relationship, financial or otherwise to the developer of this software. In fact, I don't even know his name.

Oliver

July 25 2006 at 11:12 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

tworzenie stron

very cool theme; thanks!

July 23 2006 at 1:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ken

Don't you people wear pants????

July 20 2006 at 12:39 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ALex Winchester

Scrambled please

July 19 2006 at 4:09 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply