“An influential U.S. consumer watchdog is investigating online reports that Apple Inc’s new iPad throws off an unusually large amount of heat and will publish its findings later on Tuesday,” Reuters reports.
“Consumer Reports, which reviews everything from electronics to cars, noticed comments on online forums and on Apple’s website about excessive heat from the new device, which went on sale Friday, and decided to look into the issue, a spokesman said,” Reuters reports. “The group will publish its findings on Tuesday after finishing a battery of tests, the spokesman added.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: FUDtastic! This charade couldn’t be any more transparent.
Hey, whatever it takes to put AAPL on sale, right?
What took you so long, Consumer Reports? Your Hoverounds not charged up this morning? Misplaced your dentures? Bet when they heard about the “online reports” (read: FUD planted by Apple’s roadkill and/or stock market manipulators), everyone at Consumer Reports promptly filled their Depends.
“Influential U.S. consumer watchdog.” Who does Consumer Reports really influence, exactly? The media echo chamber never questions or reports, it just regurgitates and amplifies whatever horseshit the fake iPad maker and/or hedge fund planted, so we’ll tell you who Consumer Reports influences: Grandmas looking for their last vacuum cleaner.
We can’t wait to see Consumer Reports’ tests. “When placed on a heating pad turned up to 10, the iPad exhibited a noticeably hot surface. When rested on a hot water bottle, the iPad threw off an unusually large amount of heat. When set on a hot-plate upon which we had just boiled our daily prunes for mashing, the new iPad became strikingly hot to the touch. Therefore, even though the new iPad ranks highest in every category we measure (and several that we don’t), Consumer Reports cannot in good conscience recommend the new iPad. Samsung’s Galaxy Tab, which does not get hot during normal operation, remains Consumer Reports Top Pick, especially since neither we nor our readership can even see the iPad, much less its so-called ‘Retina display,’ nor do we know WTF an “App” even is.”
For the umpteenth time: Consumer Reports is a garbage publication, bird cage liner for bird-haters, an anachronism looking to ride Apple’s coattails to gin up free publicity as their readership is rapidly dying off and/or is already dead. Their ability to judge electronics of any kind is nil. If you subscribe, cancel immediately. Tell your friends and family to wake up, too.
Because we’ve been doing this for well over a decade now and have seen anti-Apple FUD deployed repeatedly to no avail, we told ya so already (twice):
Can’t compete? Spread bullshit that will ultimately have no impact on Apple nor assuage the pain of your abject failure. Like Mac Cube mold lines termed “cracks,” iPod “scratches,” iPhone antennas, Chinese labor, iPhone antennas again (try and try again and fail both times), trojans misrepresented as “viruses,” etc., this is nothing more than white noise that loudly announces the beginning of yet another new stretch of Apple roadkill.
This is the heat they really fear: Apple sells over 3 million new iPads in three days.
As we already wrote [even] earlier this morning:
FUD, Inc. works like clockwork. Watch for reports and forum posts that take what is a normally-operating, warmer-running iPad and conflate it into “overheating.” Anyone who does so works for Apple’s so-called “competition” or their PR firms/departments, or is being manipulated by them, or is simply seriously misinformed.
We’ve used both the original iPad and the iPad 2. We now use the new iPads and have been since Day One. They run slightly warmer because they are significantly more powerful and capable. Even after hours of continuous use, they are not “hot” to the touch, nor are they not performing as intended.
If this is the best the FUDsters can come up with this time, they are even more doomed than usual.
Here’s the statement that Apple just released this morning: “The new iPad delivers a stunning Retina display, A5X chip, support for 4G LTE plus 10 hours of battery life, all while operating well within our thermal specifications. If customers have any concerns they should contact AppleCare.” (via AllThingsD‘s Peter Kafka)
Related articles:
Like clockwork: Let the iPad ‘overheating’ FUD begin! – March 20, 2012
Infrared test shows more powerful new iPad running a safe 10-degrees warmer than iPad 2 – March 20, 2012
Lets get some perspective :-
New iPad, operating temperature = 32˚C
My Girlfriends body temperature = 37.5˚C
My girlfriend’s too hot to handle, certainly; my new iPad on the other hand is positively frigid.
Also your girlfriend probably has more multitouch parts you can get to than the iPad. Right? 😉
That’s truly awesome!! hahaha!
Let’s not spread FUD against Consumers Union. These people are science/tech/bookkeeper-types. Perhaps they might even get this right.
When they couldn’t change their stand on antennagate after Apple proved that all cell phones had the same problem, they lost the right to be innocent until proven guilty.
I have had the new iPad since day one of release. It is the best Apple product to date … No issues at all! …. BUY ONE ASAP!!
More like an irrelevant dog barking up the wrong tree.
There I fixed it for you.
I have had not one issue with my iPad and am really starting to believe that fandroids just bombard Apple’s boards with exaggerations and lies just to provoke and agitate trouble! Even with my Yoobao leather case on my new iPad, running it all day and night, I have yet to feel this thing even get slightly warm, so where are all these complaints truly coming from… I also noticed that there some trying to claim they get horrible battery life, as well… I don’t know what the hell they are running, because I used my iPad from 7am, to 12am, and still had 34% juice to go, so what the hell are these people talking about… ?
Here we go- “Heatgate.” Followed by “Yellowgate,” “Taxgate,” “Foxcommgate..”
Ultimately, someone will fart and blame it on the iPad- 72inch font headline on HuffPost: “iFart.”
They came out and said ,yes its hotter but its no problem either.
i also noticed its hotter, but i use a cover anyway , so its no big deal.
Screw CR.
The price of duck tape just went up.
The article in Consumer Reports does say that the new iPad runs hotter than the iPad 2 in similar situations. It also goes on to say:
“During our tests, I held the new iPad in my hands. When it was at its hottest, it felt very warm but not especially uncomfortable if held for a brief period.”
But the author waits until the next to last paragraph to say that. Shoddy reporting picked up by even shoddier regurgitants, including Reuters who should be ashamed of themselves for mis-characterizing what the Consumer Reports article concludes.
My iP4 runs warmer than my new iPad 3. Barely.
WTF is a “An influential U.S. consumer watchdog”
Those are BIG words that just means NOTHING. A watchdog is a lazy bitch that has nothing better to do than to be NOSEY. Influential?? That just means the DOG is YAPPY, you know the kind of creature you want to stomp the life out of, and rightfully should as it’s life is meaningless.
In other news, I took my new 27″ iMac that had been running for 5 hours, running processor-intense apps, and I laid it on its back on my lap as I was naked and it felt like burning. So now I feel its important to ban all iMacs because of the dangerous risk of burning your genitals if you handle it without a million warnings because I am a total idiot who can’t think logically… I am the same bafoon who needs to read the direction and warning on shampoo bottles that warn the product is for external use only.
*sarcasm*
The new iPad is cooler
Sales of the new iPad are hotter
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