“Everyone knows that Apple’s Intel powered portable lineup gets hot, but this is insane! An enterprising fellow figured out that it would be possible to actually fry an egg on the bottom of his black MacBook,” Dan Lurie reports for The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW).
“Granted, it probably took something like 3 times as long than if he had used a stove, but thats obviously not the point. For bonus points, keep your coffee warm by placing it on top of your MacBook power adapter,” Lurie writes.
Full article with photo of egg frying on a black MacBook here.
“Presumably the Mac that’s auditoning for a job at Mac-Donalds (groan) is one that suffers from the overheating problem tackled by Interrupting Moss at the Something Awful forum. He made his system run dramatically cooler by opening it up and correcting the manufacturing defect — the application of too much thermal paste, as illustrated on page 106 of Apple’s Service Manual,” Jack Schofield blogs for The Guardian.
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Jack T” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: Would you like a little thermal paste with your omelet? Hey, maybe the fried egg chef just forgot to remove his MacBook’s plastic strip? Look at it this way, with a Rev. A black MacBook, you’ll save money on both stove use and the cost of a frying pan. 
[ UPDATE: July 17, 10:05am EDT: Original story post confirms it’s all a joke: http://www.sagags.com/?p=441 ]
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