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Apple laptops are hot items -- particularly when they're sitting on your lap. Does the recent switch to Core 2 Duo processors in Apple's high-end laptops do anything to help beat the heat? To find out, we broke out an infrared thermometer and put the machines to the test. more

[ajunginator]

It would be so nice if this article also posted the results in degrees Celsius. For most of those outside of the US, this article means nothing to them.
Now I (and many others) have to sit down with a calculator to find out exactly what is hot and what is not.
Please update and provide in future.
Cheers, Andrew.

[sosumi]

Have you tried using the Mac calculator? You only have to input the number and choose the conversion in the Convert menu.

[Jason Snell]

I think you'll find that hotter is still hotter, even in Fahrenheit.
As an American publication and web site, we generally stick with units used in the United States.

[elCapiton]

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I think you'll find that hotter is still hotter, even in Fahrenheit.
As an American publication and web site, we generally stick with units used in the United States.

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But I bet a lot of your readers are not in the US. The rest of the world uses Celsius.

[GregLoire]

I would like the temperatures to be posted in knots. Sometimes I am traveling on my sea vessel and would like to know how hot the MacBook would get against the cold ocean breeze. Thanks.

[mr_josh]

Also, could we get the temperature as a function of the amount of time it would take to warm an average-size can of pork and beans to "comfortable eating temperature"?

[iron_chef]

it was 95 degrees F in Los Angeles today.
IT'S NOVEMBER! If this isn't global warming....

[Jason Snell]

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But I bet a lot of your readers are not in the US. The rest of the world uses Celsius.

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Indeed it does, but we don't. I think most people can do a quick conversion, and frankly the point isn't as much if a temperature is 100F or 38C (those are the equivalents, by the way), but how the temperatures compare to one another.
I'm sure Jim Dalrymple will now chime in and explain that in his part of Canada, they use Kelvins.

[griffman]

Actually, in Jim's part of Canada, there's no need for a temperature scale of any sort -- it's always absolute zero. Bummer for outside sports, but the computing equipment loves it!
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-rob.

[Nobody]

I'm a U.S. citizen living in the U.S. and have found that even here most temperature measures of this nature are done in Celsius. In fact, my iStat Pro widget measures my computer's temps in Celsius - thus requiring me to convert. I agree that it is plenty easy to do the conversion yourself but I was surprised to see these done in Fahrenheit. So, not to be unpatriotic, but I'm with the "rest of the world" on this one.
Great article nonetheless. Thanks.

[imalex]

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...it's always absolute zero. Bummer for outside sports,...

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You're obviously not into ice hockey. /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
Anyway, I have a MBP Core Duo 2GHz, and with an average workload, it runs anywhere between 55C (about 131F) and 63C (about 145F). The highest I've seen it is 76C (about 168F), and that's when I'm burning or playing a DVD (burning especially), or rendering intensive graphics. Idle (as much as the machine is truly "idle" unless it's asleep) it goes down to about 30C (about 86F).
I've also noticed a marked increase in average temps if the computer is sitting in tight, poorly ventilated quarters, which is to be expected.
I use Temperature Monitor, which reads the Mac's internal sensors. I don't know if it's precisely accurate, but I suspect it's very close. It monitors the temperature of each CPU separately as well as the hard drive.
A.

[iron_chef]

what's the heat in joules?
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[kresh]

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I'm a U.S. citizen living in the U.S. and have found that even here most temperature measures of this nature are done in Celsius. In fact, my iStat Pro widget measures my computer's temps in Celsius - thus requiring me to convert. I agree that it is plenty easy to do the conversion yourself but I was surprised to see these done in Fahrenheit. So, not to be unpatriotic, but I'm with the "rest of the world" on this one.
Great article nonetheless. Thanks.

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It's in Celius because you have not changed it to Fahrenheit ot Kelvins. It does all three /forums/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif