Oh, but love is fickle
Sep. 10th, 2007 09:59 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pen_gruntMacintosh PowerBook, you pissy, pissy bitch.
This morning I managed to burn my palm on my Mac. Not just get my palm really hot, but honest-to-goodness produce-a-blister burn.
I have to admit, I dig my Mac. I'm not so sure that I feel like it's an extension of myself (that would be the prime prospect marketing target right there), but I do like it. It's sexy and neat and it does the stuff I need it to do. It also freezes its keyboard at random, but hey, we all have our quirks.
The one thing I HATE about my Mac is that it is, essentially, NOT a LAPtop. No, it doesn't claim to be a laptop, it claims to be a PowerBook. However, I'm one of those weird individuals who actually prefers having her portable computer on her lap. Unfortunately, my Mac runs hot. Very hot. Hot enough to burn.
So hot, that if my ovaries were in my lap, I would be rendered sterile. (Keep that in mind, all you boys using your Macs on your laps and frying yourselves and your junk out of admission into the gene pool.)
So considering that I like my laptop on my lap, what can I do to minimize burning potential? To be fair, the part that burnt my palm was my power cord--3 minutes AFTER I had unplugged it (on an amusing note, the plastic around the metal plug in has started to melt slightly).
This entry warranted me creating a Mac icon. This is the exact sticker that I had on the side of my little orange plastic wagon when I was a kid. I thought it was pretty because...rainbow!
This morning I managed to burn my palm on my Mac. Not just get my palm really hot, but honest-to-goodness produce-a-blister burn.
I have to admit, I dig my Mac. I'm not so sure that I feel like it's an extension of myself (that would be the prime prospect marketing target right there), but I do like it. It's sexy and neat and it does the stuff I need it to do. It also freezes its keyboard at random, but hey, we all have our quirks.
The one thing I HATE about my Mac is that it is, essentially, NOT a LAPtop. No, it doesn't claim to be a laptop, it claims to be a PowerBook. However, I'm one of those weird individuals who actually prefers having her portable computer on her lap. Unfortunately, my Mac runs hot. Very hot. Hot enough to burn.
So hot, that if my ovaries were in my lap, I would be rendered sterile. (Keep that in mind, all you boys using your Macs on your laps and frying yourselves and your junk out of admission into the gene pool.)
So considering that I like my laptop on my lap, what can I do to minimize burning potential? To be fair, the part that burnt my palm was my power cord--3 minutes AFTER I had unplugged it (on an amusing note, the plastic around the metal plug in has started to melt slightly).
This entry warranted me creating a Mac icon. This is the exact sticker that I had on the side of my little orange plastic wagon when I was a kid. I thought it was pretty because...rainbow!
