iBook & MacBook Pro, East Ukrainian Village, Chicago
When I started working at FeedBurner they hooked me up with a lightening fast 15″ MacBook Pro (pictured on the right here next to my dirty* iBook). It’s sweet. My only complaint is that it gets REALLY hot, like you can barely touch the strip of metal above the F keys. And when I unplug it and take it home it’s like carrying a portable heater in my backpack while waiting for the bus in 90 degree heat. I think it will be nice in the winter though! It sure beats the Dell & IBM laptops I had at my last job!
*Does everyone’s white iBook get this dirty or are my hands particularly filthy?
16 responses so far ↓
1 Joel // May 31, 2006 at 10:33 pm
ooooo that is purty. my workplace provides some really nice HP laptops but shoot - it’s still not a brand new macbook pro.
If only I could think of an excuse to get one, then I would but … ungh, my poor wallet.
Have you seen that supposedly there’s some plastic film (of sorts) that blocks air from escaping the top of the machine? I thought I just saw something about that - maybe that’d help w/the heat? who knows.
I’m rambling.
2 Geremy F // May 31, 2006 at 11:08 pm
This should help with that portable heater problem
3 tien // May 31, 2006 at 11:36 pm
damn, you need to wash your hands…
4 Zippy // Jun 1, 2006 at 1:25 am
I can see those stains from a satellite picture…Jeez….
5 rachelle // Jun 1, 2006 at 6:29 am
joel - i didnt realize you were updating your site again… sweden & iceland.. awesome! I was looking for your rss feed so i could stay up to date.. but.. AHEM!.. i couldnt find it!
6 rachelle // Jun 1, 2006 at 6:34 am
also, i tried everything to get the stains off but nothing works. it just kept getting worse!
7 Chris // Jun 1, 2006 at 8:32 am
Hi Rachelle -
I don’t have an iBook, but I’ve heard that those Mister Clean Erazers work great to tidy them up
8 joel // Jun 1, 2006 at 10:35 am
“joel - i didnt realize you were updating your site again… sweden & iceland.. awesome! I was looking for your rss feed so i could stay up to date.. but.. AHEM!.. i couldnt find it!”
yeah I’ve been trying to get back in the swing of things after our vacation. w/all the photos taken over that week I thought it’d be a crime if they just sat on a hard drive. I’m *still* not done, even.
So uhhhhh yeah … RSS feed … gotta get moving on that one!
p.s. Yo, Sweden and Iceland are ILLMATIC. I highly recommend both as vacation spots.
9 Keith // Jun 1, 2006 at 10:55 am
Work was kind enough to get me a 15″ MacBook Pro as well. Its awesome, and the heat thing was a bit troublesome.
Have you done the recent SMC Firmware upgrade? I did that about 2 weeks ago and it runs much cooler now. I’m not sure what they changed, but it did do something.
10 tankboy // Jun 1, 2006 at 12:16 pm
You are just a dirty, dirty girl Rachelle.
11 Crissy // Jun 1, 2006 at 1:49 pm
Eep, that is pretty dirty. I can’t say my old white iBook really ever got that dirty, but it’s probably because Todd wouldn’t let it, haha.
What’s with East Ukranian Village? Did you move?
12 rachelle // Jun 1, 2006 at 2:14 pm
crissy, that’s where i live.. just south of wicker park.
13 peter // Jun 1, 2006 at 3:26 pm
I’ve heard resetting the power management unit (pmu) and/or the pram might help with the heat. It’s pretty simple, here are the directions for resetting the pmu http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=303319
From what I’ve read on http://www.macintouch.com, there are few different possibilities that cause the excess heat.
14 Michael // Apr 29, 2007 at 7:35 am
i have had a white ibook like that for about four years and it is clean you probably dont wash your hands enough
15 MacMan // Jun 6, 2007 at 12:32 pm
There really isn’t anything to do about the stains, but forget the stains I’d do anything to even have an iBook G3!
16 Zizzle // Jul 28, 2007 at 10:21 pm
Who cares about the iBook, look at the MacBook!
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