[microcolonel]

The fire extinguisher on the desk is a nice touch; though I'm not sure that's enough volume to extinguish a G4 fire.

[giobox]

I don’t recall the G4 PowerPC designs being unusually hot running by standards of the day? The G5 was of course, but it was much worse in this regard than the G4.

[reaperducer]

Yeah, the G5 was a scorcher. But I remember my G4 laptops turning my thighs red, too.

[tomxor]

As an owner of both G4 and G3 laptops, I can assure you, eggs will fry given the right task... The G3 was actually worse.

[ianai]

Long way from reports of fires. I’ve only heard of lithium batteries doing that

[tomxor]

No it's the chips, these machines didn't exactly have the most user friendly heat dissipation design, on both models the CPU heat conducted straight through to the top case. maybe not cook an egg very fast but uncomfortable to touch for more than a second... maybe 1 EPH (one egg per hour) :)

[UncleSlacky]

The early Intel MacBooks weren't much better - my black 2007 2,1 model gets pretty hot and has a serious lack of ventilation holes.

[microwavecamera]

Now the old Powerbook 5300's actually did catch fire. My 1st tech job was a hardware technician at an Apple production facility mostly building and refurbishing Powerbooks, can confirm.