2nd-Degree Burns from PowerBook!

[EJBasile]

My updated design for a "safe" powerbook.

Lead Bottom to protect *certain* body parts from getting cancer.

and

Rubber layer between lap/desk and lead to reduce heat from making the bottom hot. Also the handrests are covered in rubber two.

 

[ColoJohnBoy]

Hey, I'm no Mac genius, but I'm wondering what kind of load you were putting on the CPU when it got so hot. Had you been running iDVD for two hours? Did you have every single application in your dock running at the same time? I've found that my 1GHz G4 iBook stays relatively cool (yes on my lap, or on my bed, or wherever...) as long as I only run one or two applications at a time. When I'm done with something I shut it down. Right now I've only got Mail & Safari running and Temperature Monitor Lite says I'm at a balmy 42-degrees Celcius and holding. But I know from experience that iTunes will bump it up a bit, and iMove or iDVD will soon start the fan running. Nothing is free in this world, and the price of performance is heat.

PS -- Your lawyer wants you to take some photos of your burn, on film if possible.

Same as you, I was running only Safari and Mail. And who's my lawyer? Seriously, I'm fine, it was just a little burn. Nothing over which to file a lawsuit.

 

[bodeh6]

I heard that Powerbooks could sterilize men so that is why I got the iBook.

 

[katie ta achoo]

I heard that Powerbooks could sterilize men so that is why I got the iBook.

In my experience, the iBook gets hotter than the PB!

I'm so glad I don't have to worry about that kinda stuff, and if I ever get a Mac for my (yet to be named) boyfriend/husband/man who buys me things he's getting a Mini!

Or steel boxers. That'd be so cool!

 

[Rod Rod]

In my experience, the iBook gets hotter than the PB!

I'm so glad I don't have to worry about that kinda stuff, and if I ever get a Mac for my (yet to be named) boyfriend/husband/man who buys me things he's getting a Mini!

Or steel boxers. That'd be so cool!

Because of your new Steve Jobs avatar, I thought you were iGary.

 

[katie ta achoo]

Because of your new Steve Jobs avatar, I thought you were iGary.

bla. Due to the iGary confusion and massive nausea that comes with watching it for more than 2 seconds, I'll make a new one tonight.

My thinking behind animating the swirlie doo:
1 hypnotize people
2 have them buy me nanos
3 YESSSS
4 KT is happy, has army of Mac-Nuts to do her bidding.


...I really need to lay off the cold meds.

edit:
now, delightfully wiggly alan greenspan. Enjoy.
/still needs an army
//and learn how to be OT.

 

[Xephian]

Wow, Lol. My 17" PB gets really hot at times too. Not very comfortable to use on your lap for a long time.

 

[ColoJohnBoy]

I heard that Powerbooks could sterilize men so that is why I got the iBook.

I plan on adopting. Who cares about sperm when you can have extra megahertz?!?!

 

[katie ta achoo]

Wow, Lol. My 17" PB gets really hot at times too. Not very comfortable to use on your lap for a long time.

I know this is kinda OT (but that's my style)
but isn't the 17" PB too big to use comfortably on your lap?

That thing.. it's HUGE! (granted, I thought the same thing when I got the 15", but still.. it's big!)

don't you feel like a tiny little person when you use it? Are you dwarfed by it?

I've always been curious about people with 17" PowerBooks.

I am a nerd.

and does it get hotter than the 15" or 12"?

I may have to test out some at the Apple Store.. HmmmMMMm!

 

[Rod Rod]

bla. Due to the iGary confusion and massive nausea that comes with watching it for more than 2 seconds, I'll make a new one tonight.

Sorry! I didn't find the crystal ball thing nauseating. I just had to do a double-take is all.

edit:
now, delightfully wiggly alan greenspan. Enjoy.
/still needs an army
//and learn how to be OT.

Nice.

 

[Abstract]

I lay down, prop my upper body up to about a 45 degree angle, move my feet so that they're under my knees and rest the powerbook's hinge-edge on my thighs, and latch button on my ombligo.
like this:
(feet side) /\_/()<-- pillow

(BEHOLD MY ASCII!!)

Wow, just.......wow.

 

[ColoJohnBoy]

What the hell. That's what I say, what the hell. Took the PowerBook into the Apple Store, explained the situation. Without bothering to turn it on or even glance at it, the Mac Genius asks:

Genius: Does it turn on? Function properly? Does the screen ever become distorted.
Me: No, it works fine, as far as all that's concerned.
Genius: Then it's alright. If it was overheating you'd notice a change in performance.
Me: Dude, it burnt my leg. I'll show you the blisters. That's not overheating?
Genius: No PowerBook gets that hot.
Me: It got hot enough to warp the metal.
Genius: (Finally looking at the laptop) Do you see the plastic in the modem port? That would melt before the PowerBook was hot enough to warp. You must have bumped it against something.

So. Wow. Not how the Geniuses were when I worked there three years ago.

 

[devilot]

That is a load of turd.

You need to either talk to a store manager or call AppleCare.

I don't care what they want to tell you-- a computer product should not get hot enough to give somebody a second degree burn. Period.