If you really want to do a percentage based comparison, you need to convert to an absolute temperature scale like Kelvin, which shows you that it’s actually a 1.8 percent increase in temperature. This is middle school science.
(Via Daring Fireball)
Nice snark from Gruber. The Verge absolutely deserves it on this one. They like to present themselves as the high standard for tech journalism, but at the end of the day, they write link-bait headlines just like everyone else. And they can’t resist a good dig on Apple (even if it means being inaccurate), because that helps promote the notion that they aren’t “fanboys.”
The iPad heat “issue” is a non-story. My new iPad gets about 1.8 percent warmer than my old iPad, which never got warm at all. It doesn’t get hot. It doesn’t burn my hand. It doesn’t even come close to getting as hot as any laptop, or my iPhone, for that matter. If yours does get hot to the point of being uncomfortable, take it back to Apple. That’s obviously a defect on your particular iPad, and they’ll be happy to replace it.
Does anyone think that a company can produce millions and millions of a product and not get the occasional defect?
