All you people who've been roasted by your MacBooks listen up. Apple has finally solved this burning issue once and for all. Â?The MacBook is a notebook, not a laptop, refer to your user manual.Â? How does that resolve the MacBook's notorious capacity to stimulate non-spontaneous human combustion? It is not a laptop so what were you thinking setting it on your lap?

Even the manual spells it out loud and clear:

That should be the end of that, right? Not as far as one user is concerned. According to one post on a decidedly not pro-Apple site, the company has been promoting the MacBook as a machine designed to sit on your lap:

See that catchy advertising phrase egging you on to put it right where lapdancers hold office. It gets even better (for crispy fried MacBook users, not for Apple). The post also included a damning evidence (see "pictograph" above) depicting the fun way to use the MacBook - on your lap. We guess it all broils down to this: Do as Apple tells you. Not as Apple sells you.