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The MacBook and MacBook Pro vent heat along the entire screen hinge. With the lid open, the heat is forced up along the screen, a little like the defroster on your car. With the lid closed, it vents straight back below the hinge. The air intake is actually through the gaps between the keys and the unibody frame.


Would it be better to vent the heat through the screen side? Sure. Maybe you've noticed a product called the iPad. Progress takes time.

I think the best way to put this is this: They put looks over functionality.


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(Excuse any mistakes...im using IE and i cant see anything i type because it screws up and goes to the top as i type anything.)

I'm thinking your disclaimer disqualifies you as any kind of judge of functionality.


Bottom line for a lot of us - Mac hardware allows us to run Mac OS, Windows, and UNIX simultaneously in a fully supported way. Having a machine ship, with full support from a location not 5 miles from where I live (I have 4 such locations, actually), with apache, PHP, and all the other goodies preloaded and properly configured, gives me flexibility that no other manufacturer offers. There's no shifting of blame between the hardware OEM and Microsoft, there's no 'go look in this forum and compile that thing to fix your driver issue'. I've got work to do, and nobody else matches what Apple can offer - which is actually a shame. Apple's not doing anything groundbreaking, but everyone else is so fixated on turning out bargain basement hardware and support that they aren't investing in anything that really helps me as a user.

Neither the CPU nor the chassis is overheating. If either did, the system would throttle back by design. Does it run hot when you've got the CPU up to 11? Sure, but the truth is that the CPU is turning out a certain amount of heat that needs to be dissipated, no matter what case you have it in. The alternative for cooling the case is to add fans, which kills battery life. It's a trade-off.



That said, I've run DF on numerous MacBook Pros including the Air and never had a heating problem. Curious that everyone is concluding Apple designs shitty computers (pretty much the same design with the same cooling system they've used the last 2 years, with millions of unit sold and no heating issues) rather than these guys are either wrong, or that they got a bad unit.


Sent from a 15" MBP running DF right this moment at a comfortable 35C.

The lack of bugfixes suggests to me that he's working on the merge. Mac and Linux players are still (largely) left out of things.

This is going round like a Benny Hill sketch...

Actually, after the cookie dispenser comments I was thinking we were heading squarely down Dwarf Idiocracy direction.

I'm curious to know - Are you going to "regen" and find the site again with the same seeds with the (post?)merge-version is released? Just to be sure in regards to any business with differences in the raws and what-not.

I don't think it'll matter since the save carries the raws now, so you just dump the .04 raws in the .03 save, but it might be worth doing just to see if it makes any difference.

And Imp is correct, I'm going to wait until the Mac and Linux people can get equal shot at it.

Heh. Untamed wilds/terrifying/joyous wilds + sand + brook + massive amounts of magnetite/flux all in a 4x4.

I think I'll just keep this one for myself...