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It wasn’t only the iBooks. I’ve come across a few 15 and 17 inch PowerBook G4’s which had the same stale sweat smell as the iBook G3.
 
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AphoticD said:
It wasn’t only the iBooks. I’ve come across a few 15 and 17 inch PowerBook G4’s which had the same stale sweat smell as the iBook G3.
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I've gotten faint whiffs of it even on computers as late as '08 MBPs.

The snow iBook G3s are definitely the worse, but a lot of Apple laptops through the first part of the 2000s seemed to have some trace of smell.
 
bunnspecial said:
I've gotten faint whiffs of it even on computers as late as '08 MBPs.

The snow iBook G3s are definitely the worse, but a lot of Apple laptops through the first part of the 2000s seemed to have some trace of smell.
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I always assumed it was just the iBook G3 models. Did Apple officially have a solution or repair program for their MacBooks that stank?
 
AphoticD said:
It wasn’t only the iBooks. I’ve come across a few 15 and 17 inch PowerBook G4’s which had the same stale sweat smell as the iBook G3.
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I was entirely unaware of the olfactory phenomenon until this year.

And it also helped to explain why my 17" DLSD vaguely smelt of body odour when I got it. It wasn’t anywhere as strong as other testimonials here and elsewhere online, but it was noticeable enough (and novel enough as a cameo in my home) that I pondered whether the prior owner was a stinky dude (turns out the prior owner was a dude, but that discovery is another conversation).

Thing is, it's always open and running, and I don’t generally smell it much anymore.
 
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