New iPad hits 116 degrees - mind your scrotum, chaps
From TGDaily:
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According to Consumer Reports, it gets as warm as 116 degrees Farenheit, warmer than human skin, especially when playing graphics-intensive games.
"When unplugged, the back of the new iPad reached temperatures as high as 113 degrees Fahrenheit. It was only when plugged in that it hit 116 degrees. The hottest areas weren't evenly distributed throughout the iPad's back, but were concentrated near one corner of the display," says Consumer Reports' Donna Tapellini.
"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."
USB-powered scrotum fan, $49 at the Apple Store. $59 for the limited edition scrotum fan which "tastefully bears the likeness of Amelia Earhart on each propeller."
PB
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Otherwise is reached a mild 113 degrees.
WOW! 3 whole degrees cooler and it was Farenheit, I suppose it would have been much better if they had measured it in celcius. 
"When it was at its hottest, it felt very warm but not especially uncomfortable...if held for a brief period."
I gotta tell ya, nothing endears me to a portable device like it being too hot to comfortably hold for any length of time!
I haven't had problems like this with laptops except for a friend's HP. That thing got very hot!
Maybe it's all the innovation that's causing the heat?
PB
...don't be a hipster dad before you're ready. The iPad 3 helps keep the little swimmers too cooked to conceive until the time is right.
...seemed like some people were getting into worse situations than others, temperature-wise. In other words, not all units may be overheating in the same way, though there seem to be some common denominators like screen brightness and being plugged in.
Anyway, on the subject of a recall, someone on the forums stated that Apple was likely to pull the same shenanigans they did with the IPod Nano- recall the thing years after the fact.
From what I've read, Apple is currently sticking to its guns about there being no problems and the product fitting within Apple's "thermal specifications". The interesting part is, if the iPad is uncomfortable to hold it doesn't matter what Apple's thermal specifications are, people are going to return it.
If this is as serious a problem as it seems, I sense a "You're holding it wrong" solution from Apple, which Microsoft famously tried (and failed) with their XBox. At some point, XBoxes were having problems and the problem turned out to be that the XBoxes were malfunctioning or having some other problems (I can't recall, it was a while ago) because people were playing them so much. The remedy? Microsoft announced that XBoxes were not intended to be played for more than x minutes or hours at a time!
I can't remember how long a period it was but for most hardcore gamers the length of time was a joke.
If they try that sort of tactic, I doubt it's going to work out very well for them. We'll see.
PB
