Doesn't count as an Apple product, but I have an original 486 chip :-)

[spaceballl]

I dunno why, but I find it to be sorta special. Like, this chip was the precursor to the Pentium, the chip that really set the personal computer explosion on fire.

[AppleMatt]

In a moment of incredible stupidity I pushed my finger on one of those as I turned the computer on 'just to see' how hot it got.

The answer is;
1) it gets very very hot
2) faster than you can move your finger away.

AppleMatt

[David Schmidt]

In a moment of incredible stupidity I [...]
Funny, I performed that exact same experiment once. I can corroborate your results. A 6502 (actually in some early Apple products) gets lazily warm over time. How bad could a '486 be, I thought...

[nick9191]

Pretty much every Intel chip ever made before the Pentium M got ridiculously hot.

[dmmcintyre3]

Pretty much every Intel chip ever made before the Pentium M got ridiculously hot.

I would not like to see a Pentium 4 in a first generation MacBook Pro case. Then the fry an egg on the bottom of the MacBook would be true.

[ddrmaxgt37]

I go dumpster diving at my university and have found tons of old chips. You can see them on my blog: http://www.arunhasablog.com/2008/12/02/e-waste-hunting/

It is so funny to think that many of those chips are much weaker than the one in the iPhone. haha

[localoid]

I dunno why, but I find it to be sorta special. Like, this chip was the precursor to the Pentium, the chip that really set the personal computer explosion on fire.

I remember working with an old-school mainframe programmer that "held out" buying his first PC until the first Pentium (P5 @ 60MHz) systems hit the market in 1993. He actually believed by "investing" in a P5 system he'd have a system that he wouldn't have to replace for at least another 10 or 15 years. :p

[dXTC]

I have a few nostalgic components myself, including a 486DX-33 chip. It probably still works, but the motherboard it came with (in my dearly departed first PC, a Quantex) is long gone; the soldered-on CMOS battery finally cracked open and corroded the mobo.

I'm probably the only fool I know that paid near full price for a Pentium-83 Overdrive chip to upgrade the DX-33. Talk about too much buck and not enough bang! I could have upgraded to a DX4-100 for cheaper, but there was some game that I was wanting to run that required a chip that identified itself as a Pentium. It's now mounted in an old AST Advantage 575 that, last I knew, still runs. I haven't fired it up in a while; maybe I should.

ADDENDUM: ...Well, whaddaya know, the old AST still boots! Time for some oldskool DOOM! :D

[pacmania1982]

In a moment of incredible stupidity I pushed my finger on one of those as I turned the computer on 'just to see' how hot it got.

The answer is;
1) it gets very very hot
2) faster than you can move your finger away.

AppleMatt

LOL - made me chuckle - am having a crappy day and that has cheered me up no end :D

pac

[AppleMatt]

LOL - made me chuckle - am having a crappy day and that has cheered me up no end :D

pac

Good :) (about the cheering up, not the day)

AppleMatt