Maybe I am just too old, or maybe nobody makes a decent laptop computer anymore. I have an Apple MacBook Pro, arguably the finest notebook computer ever made. It runs Windows Vista and Mac OS X, has 4GB of RAM, and rips through most tasks very quickly.
It will also burn the shit out of you. You cannot use it on your lap, your legs will get too hot. Sometimes it is so hot it actually hurts to touch the bottom. You cannot put a pillow or anything between it and your legs or the computer will overheat. I just had the logic board (as Apple calls it, the rest of the world calls it a motherboard) replaced, probably due to heat. Had my company not purchased AppleCare, this would have cost me over $1300! A $3,500 1-year old notebook dead from heat exhaustion.
So my question is this. If you cannot use a laptop on your lap, should they have ever made it in the first place? The old laptops didn’t run that hot. They didn’t run that fast either, but they were LAPTOPS!
Sometimes high technology is just plain stupid.