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Apple Sics Lawyers on SomethingAwful

 
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PostPosted: Sun May 07, 2006 3:35 am    Post subject: Apple Sics Lawyers on SomethingAwful Reply with quote
Apple has sent a threatening letter to SomethingAwful about a post in its forums that describes
how to fix the overheating in some MacBook Pros by applying thermal paste properly. To be more
exact, Apple requests to remove this image because "The Service Source manual for the
MacBook Pro is Apple's intellectual ...read more
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PostPosted: Sun May 07, 2006 8:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
if anything they just turned the spotlight on themselves. haha... good going jerks.
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PostPosted: Sun May 07, 2006 9:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
miglaugh wrote:
if anything they just turned the spotlight on themselves. haha... good going jerks.


Exactly Smile They are caught out in a fairly major QA problem and trying to lawyer their way around it. Same as every other large company...

I'm actually quite surprised that, given its attention to detail, no one at Apple nor anyone at Asustek realized that this is an utterly stupid amount of paste to be applying.... Rolling Eyes
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