Anybody here know enough about laptops to know how the MAC can get away without having a cooling fan? Is it because they use a smaller battery, which doesn't get as hot?

I'm pretty sure it does have one, it's just a lot smaller and has a lower decibal rating.

Also willing to be on the newer MacBooks, the aluminum unibody aids in spreading the heat (pretty much a heatsink, just a lot bigger)..

Could be wrong.

I think my brothers old, white, regular MacBook had a small fan on the bottom..

my macbook gets hot sometimes, and the fans kick up to higher rpms, I use istat nano in my dashboard and it monitors all my good stuff like that, it does get warm thought ive seen my cpu at around 180 degrees which makes for a warm lap for sure. do the new macbooks not have fans? mine is about 2 years old, but it is the intel based macbook.

I thought all the MacBooks were intel-based? :neutral:

when i bought mine some were and some were not, and alot of the downloads for mac are intel or non intel specified
here is what is on my mac
Hardware Overview:

Model Name: MacBook
Model Identifier: MacBook3,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.2 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 4 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 800 MHz
Boot ROM Version: MB31.008E.B02
SMC Version (system): 1.24f2
Sudden Motion Sensor:
State: Enabled

Ah, okay, didn't know that, mah bad.

Mac themselves have stated they don't know how to make a $500 computer that isn't a piece of crap. That explains alot right there.... :no:

I honestly don't know how there could be a fan on mine, there are no openings in the case for airflow, so even if there was a fan it'd have no fresh air for cooling.

theres vent on the backside under the screen that runs right up to where it folds thats where mine blows the hot air out. i dont hear it most of the time unless it gets hot, but right now my istat says my fan is running at about 1800rpms and i cant even hear it.

Yeah, there are fans on the sides and out back...

On the iMac desktops (the screen ones), it's on top of the monitor..

EDIT: Apple is tricky about hiding those vents..

Mac v pc
 

I have not tried a Mac yet myself, because of the prices. I have had the same desktop PC for over 15 years now and it still does the job for me. I have had issues with it over the years, but repairs are reasonable for the most part. I had one hard drive die on me, but I had a RAID system set up so the second HD was just fine, and the rest were virus issues of one kind or another. If you have a good PC guy to rely on they can fix just about anything. More often then not failures are ususally due to opening up stuff that one should know not to. One of our sons had to use my PC for a school project last week and got a virus from going into U-tube videos. We had taken his laptop, I-touch, and PSP away from him for having two "F" grades. So I let him use mine for an hour or so. I took it into my friends shop and he had it back to me the next day without any problems. It cost me $25 and I have never lost any data. We also have 5 laptops in our family and another desktop that is about 7 years old. Sure we have had issues from time to time, but overall if you take care of your computer needs as far as protection they will last as long as you want them to.

I use Symantic anti virus, and a registry optomizer to keep things clean. As long as you do updates periodically and schedule scans once a week or so everything stays operational. Its really about keeping good habits and staying out of places that everyone knows are full of bad crap that can mess your system up. There are problems with everything at one time or another. I do have to admit that some of the Mac based computers are pretty impressive if you want to pay that much for a PC, but up to now I just could not justiry it.

I always built my computers as well. The last OEM I had (other than the said cheapie laptop) was an Acer with a Pentium 75, which I later overclocked to 90mhz, w00t! My most favorite pc was a ~'98 asus 440bx MB based computer. It started life as a 300mhz slot1 celeron/ 24mb ram, and was my main comp until ~2004, when it had an OC'd P3 tualatin @1.6mhz/ 512mb ram that was faster than a lot of the early P4s. You actually had to rewire some of the pins on that last processor to get it to work in the bx. Def not mac friendly lol.

I had a p4 comp for a little while, but soon replaced that one with a C2D/socket 775 board in 2005. The S775 processors are just now really being phased out, so I may hold on a bit and pick up a quad core for cheap and just run that for a several more years. I don't game anymore, so the most intensive thing I need it for is occasional vid editing. Getting 7-8yrs out of a comp and staying relatively state of the art the whole time is awesome. I always bought inexpensive but quality components, and rarely ever had issues. Still have and use older Hdds and dvd drives that have moved from one comp to the next. The 10yo black Chieftec case I have still looks sweet.
Lost lots of usb and firewire cards to static tho... I doubt I've spent $1500 on comp parts in the last 10 yrs.

You will burn in cyber space for defecting to the company with the halve eaten apple logo:diablo::lol:

You may wanna look into the AMD Athlon II X4 620... Its' a rather cheap quad core.. Runs well, even gaming..

I've still an intel fanboy using an AMD CPU.. I need Intel to go onto a sale! :party:

15yrs?! Jesus Jerry! Btw, I have a '04 Asus PC FS. 1.6mhz, 512mb ram, will run windows7. Exec condit. Classic Taiwanese silicon. They don't make em like this anymore! :lol: (actually they do, they just cost more)