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…

according the review at MacWorld mag, the battery life and heat are similar to the previous 15". However, just like when the 12" rev A first came out, people found wild variation …

See: http://www.boincstats.com/stats/boin...c26759670d6903 I am running in my Seti at Home farm: -A G5 2.5 DP with 2.5 GB ram -A G4 400 with 2.0 GB ram -An Athlon 2400 overclocked…

Quote: Originally Posted by Todd Madson See: Explain how I somehow did five days of production in one day? Either the stats are wrong or misread or something is very odd. My p…

Todd, I just looked at my stats and have a similar jump in production. I did merge computers, though, so that seems like a reasonable explanation. http://www.boincstats.com/st…

No, no merging of anything. There have been two individuals with multiple computers joining my team but no changes on my own farm anyway.

Todd, There was 3 days where no results were passed to the Boinc Stats computer. so when the numbers caught up, there was a large jump as you noted. bill

now that themepark and shapeshifter are updated, i'm hoping to see some new themes released. i've yet to see a really impressive theme, since cathode. though that theme was too da…

Unfortunately, you most likely aren't going to see too much in the way of modded themes or even new ones. Several "regulars" who did a lot of theme work for OSX have recently "reti…

omega? i don't think i ever saw that one, unless they renamed orion to omega. well hopefully some new theme makers come along soon. i did see someone mention that they might make …

I don't mean to come down on anyone's efforts... but "attempts" with no exception that I'm aware of ALWAYS result in no theme, or one that looks just like Aqua with a different (ug…

MacDog is right. Makes one long for the glory days when Swiz & Max were dropping good stuff seemingly every month. I do see lots of new stuff on sites like InterfaceLIFT, but n…