It’s funny how the Macbook Air is turning to be a finicky little customer. Lotsa little quirks.
This afternoon I found out that even the power cord is a bad thing if used carelessly.
Risky business using an MBA these days in my country, where the temp this summer is starting to hit a hundred fahrenheit. So I used it on my very flat table in the office, eight feet from an air conditioner. No chance of overheating much, right? Wrong.
The outlet was underneath my table, and the cord wasn’t long enough to comfortably and leisurely coil around the environs. So I put it out behind the MBA and let it stretch back and across the rear edge, and down to my power strip.
Soon after, I started getting a core shutdown. Didn’t need the iStatPro widget to tell me that the MBA was overheating; I could feel it on the palmrest.
Apparently I had blocked the air vent out back with the cord of the power adapter and had boxed in the heat. I repositioned the cord and everything went back to normal. Sigh.
It’s a tough life being an Early Adopter.
