I've got a Mac (and only a Mac), and I'm currently a student of Computer Engineering at the University of Arizona. All the work I've done so far has been easily accomplished on any…

I recently found a local community college that is offering an intro course on perl, and I thought I might try it out. Now, the various languages are not too obvious to me, as to w…

C is popular, it's everywhere. It's offshoots are C++, which is immensly popular, and on the OS side of things: C# for windows and Object C for macs. Java is the most portable, b…

I second the php idea. Basically php is a scripting language that runs on web servers to produce web pages. It is similar to c in syntax. The basic concepts are identical to any l…

Quote: Originally Posted by larrinski I know I have perl installed, so it must be more mac specific, but which ones should I focus on if i get more interested in programming? Ca…

I say go with the PHP idea as well. You learn C syntax, can learn OOP concepts if you'd like, and also acquire the knowledge of a really useful language.

I got my 1.83GHz MacBook Pro just 3 days back and I can say with a bare 30 minutes of usage its getting pretty HOT....Its basically the bottom left hand side of the laptop. The top…

Unfortunately, it's normal for Apple laptops, and many others too, to get very hot underneath. It's been like that with almost every generation of G3 and G4 powerbooks and now also…

The aluminum case acts as a giant heatsink, spreading the heat from the CPU/chipset/GPU/CCFL out all over the bottom surface of the laptop. I prefer laptops which have plastic case…

Quote: Originally Posted by voken I got my 1.83GHz MacBook Pro just 3 days back and I can say with a bare 30 minutes of usage its getting pretty HOT....Its basically the bottom …

I'm pretty sure from a photograph I saw posted that there is a direct connection via thermal paste from at least one of the major chips -- maybe the processor itself -- to the bott…

I had a Pentium3 500mhz before and it gets hot. For the most part, I think people will just have to deal with it because as computers get faster, it's only normal they get hotter.

The neat part about the macbook is that the hottest parts of it are the parts that you touch the least. That is unless you're resting the laptop on your legs. The power inverter a…

I had a thinkpad T40 1.6ghz centrino and it got warm, but never as hot as my powerbook G4 1.67.

Quote: Originally Posted by pete I had a thinkpad T40 1.6ghz centrino and it got warm, but never as hot as my powerbook G4 1.67. Plastic case. The Al shell of the MBP is a…

I'm sure that's the case, but the IBM also comes with a three year warranty and has been proven to be incredibly reliable hardware wise so it doesn't seem that the internals are be…

Are they made of aluminum? Is that better than titanium? Titanium wouldn't get as hot, I'd think. But maybe it's good for the heat to disperse through something. Anyone know wh…

Quote: Originally Posted by Heavy Anyone know why aluminum is chosen over titanium? I'd have to say cost.

Quote: Originally Posted by atc ben I'd have to say cost. Aluminium/Magnesium alloy is vastly superior than Titanium for the shell of a Laptop... if you are building a Warpl…

Quote: Originally Posted by bloodline Aluminium/Magnesium alloy is vastly superior than Titanium for the shell of a Laptop... if you are building a Warplane, then Titanium has t…

Check your CPU usage via the activity monitor. Chances are the computer is indexing. Let it index for a while. It should cool down.

Carbon fibre would be better I think. Metals can be dented or scratched rather easily.

Laptop heat can also be a function of what the laptop is sitting on. For example, some desks have laminate tops that heat up quickly and actually cause your laptop to retain a lot…

We reviewed the MacBook Pro on our site. We found that the heat is only disturbing to some who use a laptop literally on their lap. It's not much hotter than the 12" PowerBook whic…

Do all the MBP's have the heat problem? or is it the ones with a faster HD or the fastest processor? In the reveiws I read, there wasn't any mention of the heat being abnormal.