[osflash] OT: mac book? or Dell?

[Mark Winterhalder]

On 9/3/06, Edwin van Rijkom <osflash at vanrijkom.org> wrote:
> Affirmative on the heat issue. I'm not bothered by it though, since
> whenever I use it portable, I put the second-skin I use to carry it
> around in, on my lap first and then place the MacBook on top of that.
> The one I've got does not get so hot you can't comfortably use the keyboard.

On the heat issue:
Our designer's MBP and my ThinkPad T60 (with which I'm very happy,
BTW) both have the Core Duo. We stress tested them, both cores at 100%
until the temperature stopped raising. I got to 71C, he got to 89C.
To be fair, the MBP just got recalled by the vendor -- not for the
battery, but for a new motherboard. Maybe it will fix this issue.

I'd love to have OSX as a second OS, but for the kind of money Apple
wants, I expect a laptop without heat issues or that obvious design
flaw with the keyboard imprints that, as I've been told, they still
haven't fixed after knowing about it for four years. For a company
which prides itself of superior industrial design, that's just
unacceptable, IMHO.

Mark