I have a two year old MBPro that after about 30 minutes of continuous use, seems to get very warm to the touch. I do use it as it is intended, i.e., on my lap most of the time. I've noticed that it seems to warm up even more quickly if I peruse the many links that UHH posters put into their posts, especially video links.

I previously owned two successive Windows laptops (Dell and Toshiba), both of which, after about two years, seemed to do the same thing and within weeks, both expired with dead motherboards. Both would have cost as much to fix as a new basic laptop would cost.

I'm concerned that the MBP may be repeating the previous laptops history. Do any other MBP owners here experience this or have experienced this?

I was taking pictures of the moon right outside my house with my 610 and tameron 150 -600. I had the whole rig on the moon. I took several pictures and wanted to try something a little different with shutter speeds and f stops. I had to go back in the house to get my flash light, I could have not been gone for 15 sec to a 1/2 minute. When I returned I found the camera on the floor The lens survived the fall but the camera not so well. I cannot change any settings the shutter release does not work, there is a piece on the pop up flash that broke off and all wires are exposed. In addition where the Info window is on the top of the camera there is no info and a big black smear like across it. Where the seems are in the front of the camera on the right side, they are all separated and you can see the guts of the camera. Other than that, Its in perfect condition. Thank God I bought insurance when I purchased the camera. Lets see how that turns out. Here is the strange thing. Last year on May 2nd I fell in a stream above a water fall in Yosemite and killed a D600 which was replaced by the 610. On my 2nd this year this camera met the same faith. I am no longer going to take any pictures on May 2nd anymore. Looks like it is totaled. every one says it might have been the wind concidering the size of the lens. by the way it was mounted from the lens