“A 50-year old scientist, previously healthy, burned his penis after placing his laptop on his, err lap, for an hour. Oh, he was fully dressed in trousers and underpants, according to this letter printed in the Lancet, the UK’s best-known medical journal,” as reported by The Register. There, in one fell swoop, all memory of the one flaming PowerBook 5300 has finally been obliterated from human history forever. As if this wasn’t enough. Stuff hot, power-hungry, old tech, Pentium-class x86 CPU’s with “longer-than-Alaskan” pipelines into laptops and no amount of turboprops and/or liquid-cooling will suffice, it seems. Read it all here.
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