Pull the udder one
By Nick Farrell: Thursday 22 June 2006, 13:19
THERE IS A BIT of controversy in MacLand about Apple's incredible
mooing lap-top.
It appears that, in some MacBooks, the fan goes on and
off continuously in a vain attempt to keep the device from
getting too hot.
Some Mac heads have picturesquely described the sound as a
cow going, "Moo," on the way to the milking shed. The less
poetic say it is the sound of a fan on its way out and a computer
about to explode.
Writing in his bog Dan Pourhadi says that he took his beautiful
black, but mooing MacBook into an Apple Store in Oakbrook to get
fixed.
He was told by the engineer that the mooing was a good thing
because it was the "fan keeping the computer cool" and it did not
need repairing.
But Pourhadi took his mooing laptop to a computer engineer friend
and was told it was not normal.
Pourhadi says this is the second Apple Mac with which he has had
problems with the fan. He bogged about a similar problem with a
MacBook Pro a while back which stopped mooing when Apple gave it a
better fan.
Having a look at what various people have said about Apple's mooing
laptops, it appears that the Cappuccino kids failed to factor in
the fact that Intel dual-core chips can get a lot hotter than what
they've been used to.
Others in MacLand say Steve Jobs intended the MacBook to moo as a
sign. [Of what? ed] They say it moos with a lot more style than any
of those nasty Windows machines. µ
