Apple dropping prices...

Percy1983

Just to bring back an old thread as I found something on the news today.

http://channel.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=18536

Trip hazard or fire hazard... I will take the trip hazard please.

asininity

Obviously a false story everyone knows mac pros aren't made out of plastice only aluminium.

That would be the new innovative icandle inight-light damn it!

Really you mac haters need to find other things to do than find silly trivial faults like this, I mean at least it works out the box!

isofa

Surely the connector cover and cable are plastic... which would match the photo, plastic has melted and dripped onto the casing, heat and chemicals have discoloured the aluminium...

More info and pics here: http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/unibody-macbook-pro-catches-fire-due-to-faulty-magsafe-cable and here http://news.softpedia.com/news/MacBook-Pro-Catches-Fire-Over-Night-112170.shtml

asininity

I was taking the mickey.

Marty_J

Percy1983 wrote: »

Just to bring back an old thread as I found something on the news today.

http://channel.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=18536

Trip hazard or fire hazard... I will take the trip hazard please.

Ouch! :eek:

asininity

Hope you mac users dont have java on your systems!!!

Marty_J

asininity wrote: »

Hope you mac users dont have java on your systems!!!

Tell me about it!

Those security researchers write some evil malware, don't they?

asininity

Its still there, I'm sure you'd have jumped on a windows issue ;-)

EDIT: possibly too many to bother. Never mind.

Marty_J

asininity wrote: »

EDIT: possibly too many to bother. Never mind.

Haha, I was just about to say that...it would be a good way to get my post count up!

asininity

I only mentioned because it was flash that took OSX down in the hacking test they did against windows osx and ubuntu a while back, cant remember the name of it though.