Quote: Originally Posted by Hornet What energy saver performance do you all have your MBP's on? Currently set to "Normal"

Ok, the Aluminum laptop as expected to get hot on the outside. It uses the external shell for cooling. Take a look at this fanless PC case. The Aluminum in that case is used to dra…

That may be true, but they are still very hot. I think it is an unfortunate trend in laptop design.

Yeah, so hence dreaming for apple to make a COOL laptop in the near future core duo ultra low voltage perhaps..

I'd MUCH rather have hot and quiet over cool and loud. It was a sad, sad day when the 10.3.2 update changed the threshold temperature for the fan on my 12" Powerbook from 65 to 55…

Macworld had this to say about battery life of MBP: Quote: But I can report the result of our first battery test, in which we played a DVD on a 15-inch PowerBook G4 and …

You guys must not be used to PC Laptops. This Macbook does get hot, but it's nothing compared to some Dells and Sonys. As for fans - again, nothing compared to the PCs. The batter…

Quote: Originally Posted by danonamac You guys must not be used to PC Laptops. This Macbook does get hot, but it's nothing compared to some Dells and Sonys. As for fans - again,…

I'm with Pete. My Dell 2GHz Latitude is much cooler than my 1.25GHz AlBook. The Dell is however, louder (you can always hear fans) and the screen gives off a constant high pitche…

Quote: Originally Posted by pete I don't know, but the Thinkpad T40 I used for several months last year with a centrino processor had great battery life, felt very speedy and wa…

Why are some of you comparing a dual core's heat to a single core?

I felt the bottom of a couple 2 Ghz MBPs yesterday, and they didn't feel abnormally warm to me. The left grill was warmer than my PB, but nothing to get in a tizzy about.

Quote: Originally Posted by pete I don't know, but the Thinkpad T40 I used for several months last year with a centrino processor had great battery life, felt very speedy and wa…

Quote: Originally Posted by Super Mario Why are some of you comparing a dual core's heat to a single core? Why not? The dual core chip only uses 4W (13%) more than the old …

Its obvious that cool-to-touch core duo laptops will be easy to obtain shortly; the likes of IBM and such. The aluminium design has always been extremely hot compared to what *can*…

Quote: Originally Posted by Hornet we may see an all new enclosure, complete with a dual core chip but also a better thought out cooling system. I don't necessarily disagre…

It seems to me that Apple have intentionally kept these model Intel Macs looking as similar as possible to their older versions for the simple reason that it signals "nothing's cha…

Quote: Originally Posted by JKT It seems to me that Apple have intentionally kept these model Intel Macs looking as similar as possible to their older versions for the simple re…

By the way, once calibrated the MacBook battery got me just under 3 hours of light work (some browsing, some editing in bbedit, opened a file in photoshop and resized it, etc). I …

Quote: Originally Posted by Kenstee I couldn't disagree more. If Apple had come out with a new drop-dead new look I don't think Wall Street and the public would have perceived i…

And you guys were concerned and complaining about battery life.... Me thinks there might be a small problem in the code that displays battery life....I had the laptop plugged in o…

Quote: Originally Posted by gmsmith And you guys were concerned and complaining about battery life.... Me thinks there might be a small problem in the code that displays batt…

Quote: Originally Posted by moodymonster btw - some thread on ars was talking about how apple didn't seem to using intel's power saving stuff: http://episteme.arstechnica.com/g…

just my observations, I get about 3.5 hours of battery on Normal usage. As far as heat goes mine gets warm up but the charger when charging, and gets hot in the middle, far end of …

I won't trust the indicator on the computer anyway, it is always wrong (usually to my advantage - it always seem to show less time than the factual time I get out of my 3+ year old…