I'm very curious to hear from owners of both powerbooks and macbook pros about the difference in heat.

I had an old Gateway PIII 500mhz and it's just as hot if not hotter, so i'm not complaining. Ppl have to realize if they demand power, power comes at a price. And one of those pri…

Well, that's the whole things: well designed PC laptops today are running cooler than Apple's Macbooks. They should at least be as good, shouldn't they?

Quote: Originally Posted by pete I think the main difference between the powerbooks and the macbook pro is that the MBPs get very warm on top too - on the keyboard, palmrests th…

Is there any sort of software hack available to adjust the cut-off temperature for the fans (i.e. make them kick in sooner to keep the machine from getting so hot)? If so, will tha…

The whole "hot", "warm", "cool" thing is ridiculously subjective but... My 1.83 MBP falls into what I would call "warm." It is not hot..not hotter than my old Ghz Ti, that's fo…

Are the MBPs as hot as the original 1ghz Aluminum PB G4? Mine got so hot it would burn my wife's lap. She had to use a pillow (thus making it even worse).

You see... Go to a PC processor and you start thinking like a PC user... "Oh... 'that'... well, THAT my friend is a feature!" Microsoft has been doing this for years... Let's NOT l…

i agree. the macbook pro gets far too hot to use on the bottom to put on your lap. I really want to get an mbp, as it is an amazingly fast computer at a good value. But, i wanna se…

Laptops have been pretty hot since about 1996, when I burned my legs with a P75 Dell laptop. I don't expect that to change--at least, certainly not until they stop using hard drive…

Quote: Originally Posted by Poogy Laptops have been pretty hot since about 1996, when I burned my legs with a P75 Dell laptop. I don't expect that to change--at least, certainly…

Quote: Originally Posted by pete 'd love to hear what it is with the thinkpads that allow them to run as 'cool' as they do. It can't just be the use of plastic for the case mate…

I used the T40 for several months last summer when the weather was hot and the fan was almost inaudible. Because I often work in quiet environments, I'm very sensitive to noise so …

Apple and a lot of other manufacturers market their portable computers as notebooks not laptops. They never suggest you can use them on your lap for an extended time. Having a powe…

Quote: Originally Posted by thefunkymunky Apple and a lot of other manufacturers market their portable computers as notebooks not laptops. They never suggest you can use them on…

not really saying anything new here, I saw/played with the macbook for the first time yesterday at tekserve in nyc and the first thing I thought was: wow, is this sucker HOT. secon…

I've had mine (2.0GHz) on my bare lap and have not been inconvienienced in the least. Sure, it's slightly hot to touch....but not scolding hot by any strech on the imagination. And…

Quote: Originally Posted by pete The heatsink on the picture looks grrrreat! Why can't Apple put one of those in its notebooks? My 12" AluBook had something very similar wh…

Quote: Originally Posted by thefunkymunky Apple and a lot of other manufacturers market their portable computers as notebooks not laptops. They never suggest you can use them on…

I have yet to hear the fans on my MBP. When I first got it, it ran really hot, so I have a slab of aluminum at work and an aluminum clipboard I put it on at home. It doesn't seem t…

I was going to purchase either a MBP or T60p, and I went with the T60p, mainly because of heat issues. That thing gets way, way, way too hot for a pro notebook, and I've checked s…

It makes me cringe to see the whines coming about heat, which is mainly a factor when under extreme long use or heavy processor demand. The MBP fluctuates from slightly warm to ho…

Quote: Originally Posted by Danoldo It makes me cringe to see the whines coming about heat, which is mainly a factor when under extreme long use or heavy processor demand. The …

here's the lap protection that everyone needs ('course it's sized for a 12" and needs to be a little bit wider for the MBP, but you get the idea). It's an acrylic EZ-Lap, with a fr…

A lot of it also stems on what you're doing with the laptop. When I first got my MBP, I would have described it as "quite warm, and hot to the touch in places." Over the last wee…