It is starting to look that the new range of Macbooks is starting to show all Apple's latest flair for design genius.

Apparently the highly priced 17-inch MacBook Pro, which uses the the Core i7-620M, runs a little hot. It seems that while the i7 is a fast chip, it produces too much heat for the Apple chassis. One punter claims that the beast is "almost too hot" to touch.

Tests on the web have found that when the machine was under heavy loads the chip reached 101 degrees Celsius, which is hot enough to boil water. The problem is down to the all-aluminum design of the Mac. The design geniuses at Apple uses the entire body of a Mac to cool the machine. This does work, but apparently Apple did not think that the machine would get really hot. After all most of its users are not going to be taxing the brain of the machine playing their Coldplay or surfing the net looking for a girlfriend.

However when the machine overheats the chip will automatically start to run in a slower, "throttled" mode, so less heat is generated. It also goes unstable. No word about a fix from Apple, in fact the outfit has yet to acknowledge there is a problem.