Right...except for the tens of thousands of people with the 2011 machine experiencing heat related damage to the GPU.
Your study size of one doesn't 'go to show' anything at all regarding the MacBooks thermal performance. It shows that you yourself haven't experienced any issues but that's where it ends.
I for instance have a 2010 i7 MacBook Pro and it will spin up and get ridiculously hot (too hot to touch) simply watching a 1080p flash video on YouTube. Not the greatest thermal design there with my study size of one :-)
What I will say though is that Apple seems to use the Aluminium case as a heat transfer device, so it purposefully gets hot to disapate heat. That's great until there is a fault with the solder being too thin to withstand the planned temperatures like is happening to the 2011 MacBooks with the discrete GPU.
Your study size of one doesn't 'go to show' anything at all regarding the MacBooks thermal performance. It shows that you yourself haven't experienced any issues but that's where it ends.
I for instance have a 2010 i7 MacBook Pro and it will spin up and get ridiculously hot (too hot to touch) simply watching a 1080p flash video on YouTube. Not the greatest thermal design there with my study size of one :-)
What I will say though is that Apple seems to use the Aluminium case as a heat transfer device, so it purposefully gets hot to disapate heat. That's great until there is a fault with the solder being too thin to withstand the planned temperatures like is happening to the 2011 MacBooks with the discrete GPU.