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.

I'm having the same experience.... so you're not alone... I just bought a USB fan... we'll see if this will help... thing is when you're mobile with no power source around... you…

I really dont see the heat being such a huge problem. My pb g4 gets astoundingly hot on late night wc3 lan parties, as in having it on my (covered) legs causes severe discomfort an…

I have the 2.0GHz MacBook Pro. My last laptop was an 800MHz G3 iBook. The MacBook Pro does get warmer than the iBook, but not by much. It certainly has never gotten too hot for me …

I was playing an HD video on a MBP for ~10 minutes and it got RIDICULOUSLY hot underneath...much hotter than my old 1.5ghz 15" G4 PB ever got. The entire back area underneath wher…

Do you think it is possible that some of these computers are actually getting hotter than others, or is it just a difference of opinion as to what is considered HOT?

Quote: Originally Posted by mikemako Do you think it is possible that some of these computers are actually getting hotter than others, or is it just a difference of opinion as t…

Quote: Originally Posted by aristotles It's probably the latter. Nah, I disagree. I'm not bitching, but it's the hottest I've used. On the G4 laptop side, I've owned a 5…

im not familiar with G4 book...dont they have fan inside??? (just askin dont get mad..please...)