That's what happens when you leave your guard down, now your completely vulnerable. Word of advise, don't put your macbook on your lap while your online..you might lose something else as-well!

Should a tragedy like this befall someone, we can only hope and pray that "artificial laps" will be perfected quickly, the victim will rapidly come to his or her purchasing senses, and buy a Toshiba, Acer, or Lenovo the next time.....:rolleyes:

This is only a minor setback. Remember when Dells would set themselves on fire? Notice how revolutionary the battery life and controllers that the Mac operating system possesses. Never have there been a similar Windows function.

"Miller noted that it would be especially nasty because few IT professionals would consider the battery as a source for the malware, allowing it to reinfect the machine perpetually." Yes, because you can store malware in a battery. Just buy a new battery, it's not that big of a deal. I know of many PC batteries that die within a year. This does not alter the fact that Mac is better than PC in almost aspect albeit this small bump in the road.

You go, girlfriend....!

whoa there!!... lets pump the brakes.. i wouldn't go as far as to say Macs are Superior.

i own both and use both. each have their pros and cons, and i would never go as far as to say one is superior. i can name things that PC does better than Mac, and vise versa, but i don't think there's enough space for that on this page. and i'd rather not start that again.

the fact of matter is, this is not limited to Macs, as the author points out, this technology has been widely implemented to electronics. it's only inevitable that we'll run into this at some point.

It be funny if someone drives close to a Apple store and does the hack and they all explode.

I think it would be funnier in individual circumstances

For example: In the middle of a Steve Jobs podcast.

or, some guy trying to pick up a girl by showing her his new Mac Book.

Then perhaps, when someone was watching a fireworks display video.

But best of all: in the middle of a classroom filled with PCs and the only Mac goes up like a roman candle.

If you know the zoom zoom commericals, then you'll understand this:
boom boom boom (you know they rest if you know the commerical)

as for a more serious note, I'm not surprised by this finding. back to a funny note. Immagine if someone was crual enough to make a bug that would cause all the Mac batteries to go off at the same time.

You know, decades ago, there was an urban legend that the Japanese were going to send out a signal, and all of our transistor radios were going to explode. It never happened. Y2K, never happened. We can all hope that with the Apple batteries, this time it will be different.

Black ICE

Al-Louizsec will take advantage of this.

Easy temporary fix, take out the battery when you don't need it. I run my laptop of a cord so much, so I have decided to take out my battery. My Dell laptop works fine without it as long as the cord is plugged in. I'd laugh if Mac's had to have the battery in to run.

You were expecting it to work with no battery and no cord..?

Oh no. Lucky me, I don't have a Mac.

Quote: "Just buy a new battery, it's not that big of a deal"

Hey steve!! I had no idea you were a member here at techspot. Perhaps your foxconn employees can make some use of this to save us scraping pavements..

People this is not a bug its a feature

You've got a point...

Ever been frustrated that the Battery is not easily replacable?
Well now there is an app for that! . . . iBatteryOut!
£0.59p and you can now litterally blow your battery out of the casing!

Try it now with the free Lite iBatteryOut! that will allow up-to 5 free trys.

" You've got a point...

Ever been frustrated that the Battery is not easily replacable?
Well now there is an app for that! . . . iBatteryOut!
£0.59p and you can now litterally blow your battery out of the casing!

Try it now with the free Lite iBatteryOut! that will allow up-to 5 free trys. "


I lol'd, still lol'n

Sorry this is one of my all time Internet pet hates!

Give "advice"

and please "advise"

Learn the difference!!!