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Apple Denies Reports of Mac Pros Emitting Toxic Fumes

MBPro said:
On occasions my 17" MacBook Pro emits a noxious smell. And another thing, I can't use it as a laptop unless I want 3rd degree burns on my lap. Way too hot!
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Yes! After that SMC program screwed up my MBP, the damn thing is running so hot that it feels almost worse than it ever did before I tried that program. Although I can hear the fans running, I feel that they are not running anywhere near what they should be.

That SMC program now spontaneously deletes itself. I gave up. I'm now looking for Nomex chaps or boxer shorts...
 
Maybe this is what Seinfeld meant in those PC commercials when he asked if MS working on something moist and chewy? :D

Again, Ballmer got it wrong and was reading a pie recipe, instead of the latest computer specs: "cooked apples". :D

Guys, it is supposed to be a cake, you do not actually cook the computer

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Ok, sorry - people are posting jokes and I thought these were funny....
 
eyecool said:
On a serious note, I use a mac pro at home. I had just brought a pack and play to put next to my desk (right in front of my mac pro) when my wife forwarded me the news. We have a 6 month old daughter. This news is concerning!
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I'm becoming more and more anti 'things made in china'. I've been anti-walmart for years and go out of my way to buy made in anywhere but china. I have a 7 year old too and so much of the crap he gets is made in china.

Really, for the $3k + we spend on our Mac Pros, you'd think they'd carry a hefty enough margin they could manufacturer them in the USA. Even if some parts are China made, you'd think Apple would have more control over the process. When I ordered mine in January, I knew it was made in China but in the Apple vs China battle, Apple won.

When I see $399 windows laptops advertised at Fry's, I think "made in China". When I spend 10x that much money on a Mac, I don't. Maybe I should!
 
ok, I never had a computer smell unless a part burned up or it overheated.

Interesting, what about all those laser printers where the dust and fumes let out is worse than smoking a cigarette (several articles on that). Yet we still have thousands of laser printers in homes and offices.

they ban smoking in hospitals, offices, resturants - yet they have a laser printer in patient rooms. ok 100 people lighting up in a room is worse than 4 or 5 laser printers, but then again I don't sit there or near someone puffing a cigarate, but I spend 8 or 10 hrs next to 1 or 2 laser printers at my desk.

I don't see a big frenzy over that? Again - someone trying to blame apple for something non-concreate.
 
Fezzasus said:
The fact is that in order to smell the solvents such as benzene, they must be volatile so you simply will not still be able to smell such solvents on a computer that old. Prior to being discovered to be carcinogenic, benzene was used to wash down desks because it evaporated so quickly.
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Benzene was and still is in a lot of products (almost just about everything made).
 
eyecool said:
Really, for the $3k + we spend on our Mac Pros, you'd think they'd carry a hefty enough margin they could manufacturer them in the USA.
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Then those things would be somewhat more than just $3k-ish. American labor is too expensive, plus you need to provide health benefits etc.
 
Fezzasus said:
Not true. Not only is benzene added to petrol in very small quantities, but any car with a catalytic converter (either the newer three stage or older two stage) is designed to convert unburnt hydrocarbons into carbon dioxide and water.
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There are still a lot of old cars on the road and in North Carolina, any car older than 1996 does not need emission testing as the newer testing probes to not fit the older exhaust. Here in the south, we have a lot of old cars on the road as the body does not rot quickly (unlike up north where there is a lot of road salt use).

Actually is was not until 2 years ago that emission testing went statewide (if you lived in a rural county, you were exempt). Farm equipment still does not need to go by any emission standard.
 
Apple should be more concerned about this before it becomes one of those "cancer-causing-microwaveable popcorn-fume" stuff. :eek:
 
Apparently the french writer has no idea that the manufacturing process isn't perfect or what a "warranty" means. If the author actually read Apple's discussion forums or did some investigative work, it's likely Apple would have replaced his computer like it did with the majority of the people on the discussion forum who had "smelly" Mac Pros.

The problem with the Internet is you get a false sense of reality, especially on a forum where most people go to vent. People who frequent forums think everyone is affected by the problem—and calls for a class action—where it's actually only a few dozen people with an isolated defect.
 
Did the original french report actually mention a smell, or just some sort of chemical vapor being measured coming off the case?
 
G5 smoking

Wow, I am glad I found this thread. I recently became sick from the fumes my G5 is spitting out. I had a severe allergic reaction to the fumes that I am still be treated for.

Maybe I should call Apple
 
The only thing my MacPro is smokin' are the AfterEffects comps I'm spitting out. ;)

Sounds like a case of computer maintenance and neglect to me; maybe I should not have let my ant farm crawl around inside the case.... :rolleyes:

-mark
 
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