http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/ Engadget Comments for Core i7-equipped MacBook Pro CPU hits 100 degrees Celsius (updated) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/Apr 26th 2010 7:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/
So much for paying a premium for "superior" hardware.]]>Apr 26th 2010 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/
Seriously what I cant stand about Apple products is the people who buy them...

Just like GM cars these people buy any crap they put out and keep them going...

so when GM fails they had to get bailed out, because all those so called " rich people" could not buy the crap anymore.

But yet a good company like PALM gets its ass handed to it?

WTF?

people need to know how to vote with $$$ instedad of trying to fill thier life with crap the minute it comes out...
]]>Apr 26th 2010 7:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/Apr 26th 2010 7:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/Apr 26th 2010 8:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/

really. makes no sense to me.]]>Apr 26th 2010 8:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/Apr 26th 2010 8:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/You odviously don't own a GM or Apple product. Sent from my iPhone in my 2008 GMC Truck.]]>Apr 26th 2010 8:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/Apr 26th 2010 8:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/Apr 26th 2010 8:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/Apr 26th 2010 8:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/
Superior Apple engineering.]]>Apr 26th 2010 8:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/Apr 26th 2010 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/Are you confusing "rich people" with suburban consumerist Republicans? I only know one wealthy person that drives a GMC vehicle, and he's the CEO of an energy company. More common are Lexus (for boring people), BMW (for liberals), Mercedes-Benz (for conservatives), or Bentleys and Rolls-Royces (for those who have no tact or the 40 year old mooching children of old money). Interesting side fact: according to a vehicle ownership and political self-identification survey, Porsche is the "most conservative" car brand. And yes, AppleDrank's comment had nothing to do with the article]]>Apr 26th 2010 9:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/
...or boil some water.]]>Apr 26th 2010 9:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/Apr 26th 2010 9:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/If you're running CineBench I'd expect it to switch to the fastest GPU option available. Or isn't CineBench GPU accelerated?

Anyway, nice going Engadget, some more ammo for the Apple haters. They've been a little down since the iPad review actually turned out to be quite positive.

So 1 single laptop, one with the fastest CPU option, runs hot in a video transcoding torture test? Groundbreaking stuff... Now please repeat that test for 20 i7 MBP's and 20 similarly specced laptops from a different manufacturer and get back to me if it turns out MBP's really run this hot. ]]>Apr 26th 2010 9:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/
And if you aren't pushing the system to it's limits, then what is the point in having all that power? You might as well have a lower spec one if you aren't going to use the extra power. If it can't do intensive stuff without cooking your nuts, then the laptop is just so that you can boast to your chums about your high spec Macbook. Though that's all it is for a lot of their market anyway.]]>Apr 26th 2010 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/Do light work -> laptop stays cool = laptop on lap
Do hours of transcoding video -> laptop runs hot = laptop on table.

I have a Dell Precision laptop with a C2D that probably doesn't run half as hot as this thing, but still it gets too hot to keep it on my lap for longer than 30 minutes. I used to have an old P233MMX one that had similar issues. Personally I don't see why anyone would be surprised having a laptop transcoding video on your lap isn't comfortable.

Anyway, my point was that one laptop tested doesn't really make a reliable sample. Wake me up if people everywhere around the globe start complaining about MBP's running hot.]]>Apr 26th 2010 9:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/ laptop runs hot = laptop on table."
Uh, it's not only a matter of it being uncomfortably hot - all of that he leads to premature failure of the processor... ]]>Apr 26th 2010 9:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/
Oh, QQ.]]>Apr 26th 2010 9:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/Sure, that's why I suspect this particular machine had some kind of problem. Tjmax for a core i7 is 105 C, case temperature is ~70 C. If this thing goes to 100 C, something is wrong, either with the CPU, the thermal sensor, the interpretation of the thermal sensor, or the internal cooling of the laptop. Like I've now said twice already: before jumping to the conclusion that MBP's run so hot, a larger sample is required.]]>Apr 26th 2010 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/
Vasectomy alternative?]]>Apr 26th 2010 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/Apr 26th 2010 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/
Such as how long were they running this program, what exactly are the nature of these tests etc.

Cause running a video for 2 hours like a normal user would is one thing, if they were running some processor intense program for 20 hours and it didn't actually start to get hot until hour 19 that's a bit different. ]]>Apr 26th 2010 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/
why do the pictures say Core i5?

the article's pictures are for the Core i5 processor.]]>Apr 26th 2010 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/Apr 26th 2010 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/
You really can't ask for a better reason than the hardware destroying itself. This sort of hardware is supposed to specifically avoid this sort of thing. The software should also be "smarter", "better" and able to juggle user requirements versus resources and overheating.

Of course it's ammo for "haters". If Linux or Windows were doing this, the Apostles of St. Steve would be all over it.]]>Apr 26th 2010 11:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/Apr 26th 2010 12:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/
I blame the lack of serious ventilation. For way too long they've eschewed sensible engineering in deference to style (I realize it started the trend, but I hate the mac-style hinges. All they do is create a lower screen viewing angle, causing more neck problems, and disallowing you to open them flat like a normal laptop).

I'd rather have a small flat blow drier on my lap--like my venerable xps M1210--than a hot plate. Someone needs to post a video on youtube, frying an egg on it.]]>Apr 26th 2010 12:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/
Hey, this isn't exactly new:

http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/1/30/]]>Apr 26th 2010 12:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://j.mp/macbook-liquid-nitro]]>Apr 26th 2010 1:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/Apr 26th 2010 1:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/It is to keep people who buy it from reproducing.]]>Apr 26th 2010 2:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/Apr 26th 2010 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/
If you buy a mac pro with a core i7 in it
i would suspected you are not doing normal thing like watching a dvd with it
I would suspect your actually using it for work of some kind like editing video and encoding video and photo shop work that kind of stuff that tends to be cpu intensive

if you by a mac pro with core i7 and don't do anything but watch video and surf web pages then your an idiot

a majority of high end macpro sales are to to professionals who do actual editing work on them

so in this case them people would be normal user of this machine and this will be a real issues for them ]]>Apr 26th 2010 3:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/
Fry up some food on the i7 Macbook, then cool it down and let the oil drain down the keyboard of an i7 Thinkpad.]]>Apr 26th 2010 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/it expands just make sure you dont leave the macbook there to long "cause nobody likes roasted nuts".]]>Apr 26th 2010 7:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/Apr 26th 2010 11:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/
My Core i7 Envy 15 runs cooler than this...

and I got it RMA'd for running too hot.]]>Apr 27th 2010 12:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/Apr 27th 2010 3:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/Apr 27th 2010 6:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/Apr 26th 2010 7:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/Apr 26th 2010 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/
New apple laptops leading to unintended acceleration?

Officer, I couldn't stop. My laptop was branding my leather seats like some sort of fruity dude ranch.

News at 11.]]>Apr 26th 2010 10:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/
but seriously - if this has any merit, apple needs to recall these things before they get sued by the litigation happy American public. I wouldn't doubt someone would be willing to intentionally burn themselves for the money. Didn't some lady get more than 10 million from McDonalds for a coffee burn?]]>Apr 26th 2010 10:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/
So how exactly would "friggen aluminum" contribute to overheating the CPU? You understand that aluminum is a good thermal conductor?]]>Apr 26th 2010 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/only problem is there's no convection. Try cooking in an aluminum- enclosed room with no windows and you'll see my point.]]>Apr 26th 2010 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/
Your statement insinuates aluminum is somehow retaining the heat, in other words, your saying aluminum is an insulator. The fact that there is no convection is a function of the geometry not the material. Try making the laptop out of plastic or stainless steel and see how the CPU temp reacts.]]>Apr 26th 2010 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/26/core-i7-equipped-macbook-pro-hits-100-degrees-celsius-your-lap/Apr 26th 2010 7:46AM