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Cook Your Breakfast With MacBook
Kisom writes "Everyone knows Apple isn't famous for their cold notebooks. Dan Lurie however discovered it was possible to cook eggs on the bottom of his MacBook. Even though it took three times as long to cook the egg, Apple should probably be concerned."
I do not like MacBooks and ham,
I do not like them, Sam I am!
From the summary: Even though it took three times as long to cook the egg, Apple should probably be concerned. Actually McDonalds should be concerned. Apple is coming out with a previously unannounced, now leaked, new product, the Egg MacMuffin.
Developers: We can use your help.
"Introducing the superfast, blogging, podcasting, breakfast-cooking, do-everything-out-of-the-box MacBook."
By the way, yes, I am a Mac user.
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
When will we start seeing iOmlettes?
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Take a look at the original link:
http://www.sagags.com/?p=441
It mentions that it is in fact a joke.
So why does /. link to a blog which in turn links to the actual article: http://www.sagags.com/?p=441? The normally adds NO value.
This is more satire taken seriously by an idiot on the web. The link in the article above is a blog that picked up another blog where the guy clearly says he's making a joke. This is like when the onion is taken seriously...
That aside, props to the Egg MacMuffin joke...
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...not to mention the new baked Apple Pie.
Didn't they have the iGrill on thinkgeek?
But doesn't it just overheat in the most user-friendly, fashionable, ultra-hip and trendy way?
Should you run out of supplies for your own experiment, you can get a fresh dozen from newegg.
With the designer colors, this cookware seems less Emeril and more Martha Stewart, doesn't it?
Steve Jobs is announcing that the iPod Souffle will be available in November.
I wasn't surprised at all when I read this blog entry. My Macbook (the vanilla version, cheapest of the three) is so hot that I actually burnt my skin. If I put it on a pillow, it gets excessively hot and makes the laptop hum like hell.
I have experienced heat before, but not this kind. I wonder what the airports say about the new portable egg toasters.
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With some recent software updates my new Macbook Pro (around a month old now) doesn't run overly hot under OS X, even when charging the battery. However, I installed Vista under Boot Camp and since it isn't supported by Boot Camp yet the power management functions don't all seem to work as normal (it is a beta after all). Well, needless to say you can't put the Macbook Pro on your lap at all, especially not when plugged in (which, running Vista you get maybe 90 mins of battery life or less so plugged in is a constant state). I could easily cook many things on that upper left corner which is where I assume the battery is located at since the charging input is on that side. My guess would be that the temperature on that side exceeds 130 degrees fahrenheit or more.
And yes, it is blasphemy that I am running Vista on a Mac and its unsupported blah blah blah blah, but either way the Macbook Pro's still run way too hot and don't ever seem to run their fan. Their own documentation tells you not to use your *laptop* on your lap, which seems quite stupid to me. Whats the point of a mobile computer if I have to be tied to a *DESK*.
"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield." - Tennyson
This reminds me of a story I once heard about a scoutmaster who rigged up a miniature oven you could put on top of a car engine. He supposedly had recipes where the time had been converted to miles driven. On camping trips, the boy scouts would set up a meal before they left, and by the time they arrived at the campsite, dinner would be ready.
So many options! So little importance!
Is this an exampe of egg-streme programming?
Or have reports of overheating MacBooks been egg-sagerated?
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Please read TFA (http://www.sagags.com/?p=441), which states, "If you didn't know yet this is a joke (you guys really need to read the whole thing)." Engadget messed this one up too.
I have difficulty taking someone seriously who can't figure out where the battery is on a laptop.
And grill your dinner to a crispy state in five seconds flat.
I know the article is a joke, but I could tell that from just looking at the picture. If he really cooked an egg on his MacBook, he would need a bigger foil, otherwise the moment you crush the egg, it would spread and stain the uncovered parts of the laptop. The foil is too small to cover the spread of one egg. Thus, it is apparent from the picture that the egg was cooked before it is placed on the foil.
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One thing that it did have going for it was some really cool desktop apps. At the time when the Amiga 1000 and Atari 520 STs were out (yeah, I had those too) the Macs had a lot of cool software. That's why they were being emulated. The first Amigas and Ataris had Motorola 68000 processors. They were pretty quick for their day, but when they came out the current Macs were then using newer processors. It was fun to use Spectre128 and SpectreGCR on the Atari to emulate a 68K Mac, and it was useful, but the truth was that it would be emulating old tech -- like someone making a machine to run MacOS8 today. Interesting, but maybe just a geeky thrill than practical. The Amiga had a powerful OS, but it was lacking in some applications. For example, there was a word processing application (don't recall the name but I think it was WordPerfect) for the Amiga. It ran, but scrolling and inserting images was not optimized properly. As a consequence, an older Mac could scroll a page faster even though its hardware was primitive compared to the Amiga. This also happened on the Atari ST. The drawing routines in GEM were so abysmal that there was a market for improved libraries. There was a text editor called Tempus that used these improved routines and it was super fast compared to the TOS routines.
But Macs did things that were not easily available on other machines. For example, I've had multiple desktops on my Macs for years. Only recently (last couple years) has this become stable in XP (though some apps still are not multiple screen aware - E.g., some Java apps, full screen applications, etc.). This has worked for as long as I can remember in Unix, but recently it has actually been problematic for some configurations (dual head on Linux laptops, for example).
Don't get me wrong -- I loved my Amigas and Ataris, but there are clearly areas where the Mac led the pack.
Exactly. If you have no idea where your battery is, you probably aren't the target market for beta-testing software. I can just imagine what that guy's bug reports would look like.
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SUMMARY: When I click right there [::insert gesture, not written in summary::] I get an error.
HOW TO REPRODUCE ISSUE: Click right there.
POSSIBLE SOLUTION: Keep that error from showing up. Or make it impossible to click there.
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Sorry parent poster, you're wrong. The Commodore Amiga came out with a full-screen, 4,096-color palette, high-resolution monitor, with sound and a multitasking OS all in 1985. It was far more advanced than the Mac of the day.
As memory fades, we tend to remember the PCs that have lived on until today, notably the IBM PC and the Apple Mac. But just because these PCs are around now does not mean that they were necessarily the better computers then. Far from it.
At the time of the Amiga's release, Apple was still selling the monochrome, single-tasking Macintosh and for roughly three times the price, and the Apple bosses were sick with worry.
In fact, Apple considered buying the Amiga and selling it as their own product. Look it up. I'd recommend reading On The Edge if you need a reference.
Now the problem is that your battery will only last 2 hours or so with this new 'update'. Yeah, back in the day the original 'Toilet Seat' iBooks could deliver 8-10 hours battery time with no problems exactly because they had no fan.
That's the one thing I cannot stand about Apple: they keep tweaking settings with their updates without giving users any options to adjust them afterwards.
Like disabling SuspendToDisk ('hibernate') option in 9.0->9.0.4 update, removing 'swappiness' control from 10.1, disabling iTunes internet filesharing, etc.
Oh, and microsofting their users by requiring the f***** CD keys.
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Mac: Hi, I'm a Mac
PC: Hello, I'm a PC
Mac: I can cook an egg!
PC: You must think you're hot shit
Mac: Yes, yes I do
Besides, the last thing I want is to have to carry around more junk with my laptop, let alone another thing that requires MORE batteries or another power cord.
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