Sounds like a bad chipset got mixed into a batch.

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Seems like every MacBook and PowerBook I've ever owned. Ridiculously hot to the touch under most circumstances.

Mine does this too, although I've only noticed it whilst tracking my location by GPS inside Google Maps. That's not to say it won't happen under other circumstances, I've just not been aware of it anywhere else.

My 3GS is not plugged in at the time of the overheating.

I don't think by anyone's definition would a few cases be considered anything close to a plaque...come on, stop the sensationalization of every little thing that happens. This has become way too common on your site...I'm done with you guys.

And by the way, discoloration of plastic doesn't mean something is overheating. It could just as easily mean the plastic itself is not meeting it's specification...think before you report.

" the company only offered to hold his phone for five days of testing."

Sounds like they couldn't hold it for five minutes. SS! Hot!

"the company only offered to hold his phone for five days of testing."

If this interaction really happened and that was Apple's response, that would be entirely unacceptable.

A plague is a widespread affliction. How do we go from "plague" in the title to "some users" in the first sentence of the article?

I wonder if one day we'll see a trend back to print news when there were actual editors that reviewed stories. I think I preferred the days when I got my weekly MacWeek magazine in the mail with researched articles.

I think I preferred the days when I got my weekly MacWeek magazine in the mail with researched articles.

-Me too! Those were the days- when news was gently debated on the internet, but the delivery form was paper....MacWeek, NeXTweek,... I hate the way news is reported now...everywhere! this is not the way it was supposed to play out...

While I agree that the news articles on this site are written and plagiarized by obvious amateurs sometimes, I have to ask... why do you people come to this site in the first place if you hate the way it's edited? MacNN is not the only Mac news site out there.

why do you people come to this site in the first place if you hate the way it's edited?

They come for my lively, intelligent, and informative comments, of course.

That and its the only place people still find "Zune...what's a Zune" funny.