From: Jon G. <jgr...@gm...> - 2007-06-06 04:01:18
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On 6/5/07, Nick Hoffman <li...@gm...> wrote: > > some of the "little dots" on my MBP C2D are silver, and others are gold. > it's possible the gold ones are brown though, as there's a translucent piece > of plastic above the exposed PCB that could be tricking my eyes, and i don't > want to remove it. > Well, I also have a 'brown' outline on the back of my battery (in the shape of that chip area) so this is definately from heat... And those 'dots' REALLY look like they are scorched to me. Dunno. I'll have to really get a close look I guess. I've started to keep mine on a glass table because I'm scared its going to literally catch fire one day... :-) Especially in the summer with no central air running and glibc/gcc make/make check's going on and the like... This sucker really gets hot when you start compiling large source code, which is what I do for hours every day... I had to stop playing video games in Windows because the thermal protection would kick in and shut the thing down... Not good... > Apple says not to use their laptops at an angle or on your lap?? where'd > you read this? a URL would be great.. > I'm trying to find that link again. It was on CNET tech or something like that... I'll keep looking... If I would have bookmarked all the silly statements from apple that I've read, I'd have an amusing collection by now... |