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from the lines last week it's evident the iPad is a hot product the question this week is whether the new iPad is a hot product literally it's better to have a cooler product I mean no one's gonna tell you it's better than how the product so seen at senior editor Eric Franklin put the new iPad in the previous model the iPad 2 to the test I ran a game a very highly intensive very graphically impressive game on both both systems for 15 minutes at the highest brightness and then I turned the iPads over and took measurement readings from five different points on the back the new iPad only got to be around 94 in our tests earlier this week an Apple representative told CNET that the new iPads display power connectivity and battery life all operated well within thermal specifications but if customers have concerns they can contact Apple care it doesn't seem to be any warmer than laptops laptops actually tend to get a little bit hotter you're holding the iPad you're holding the tablet you you're feeling with your hands in fact CNET editors in New York ran he tests on a variety of laptops and found that the Apple MacBook Pro registered the same or slightly higher temperatures than the dell or toshiba so here's the bottom line I think it's just gonna blow over people realize it's just a warmer iPad I think it's being blown out of proportion electronic products get hot the simplest fixing that experts say use a case and turn down the screen brightness in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News