Toxic Fumes From Mac Pros? 267
Fanboi Killa writes "Apple is investigating damning claims, published in a leading French newspaper, that its computers emit a toxic odor containing chemicals including the cancer-causing benzene. Apple has not denied the accusations. Its spokesman, Bill Evans, told Macworld the company had not found any evidence to support the claim but Apple would continue to investigate. Posts on Apple's own discussion boards suggest the Mac maker knew about potentially toxic odors being linked to its computers as early as December last year."
Not MacBooks (Score:5, Informative)
If there's any truth to it, then I'm fairly sure this only applies to MacPros (see http://blogs.zdnet.com/Apple/?p=2319 [zdnet.com]).
Mac Pro not MacBooks! (Score:5, Informative)
Um... (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Toxic odor??? (Score:1, Informative)
I think the GP means that the odour isn't toxic, the gas responsible for the odour is.
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Congratulations, plastic is dirty (Score:5, Informative)
Wow, what a discovery...
Plastic is amongst the "dirtiest" compounds in manufacturing. They commonly contain plasticisers, colorants, residual monomers, oligomers and solvents, all of whom can, and most likely will evaporate. Depending on the choice of plastic, this is much, little, odourless or smelly.
It looks like only the mention of Apple Mac these days will get your news posted..
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Re:Denied it? You bet. (Score:2, Informative)
Almost all plastics off-gas to some extent (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Help! (Score:0, Informative)
FYI- You can't edit on Slashdot. Might want to update your troll.
Re:Not MacBooks (Score:5, Informative)
Seems there might be something to the report, but it's too early to say for sure. If it's correct then the problem is most likely related to either a protective coating applied to the motherboard, or possible some plastic pieces on the inside of the case (my money would be on the coating though).
So, to re-iterate, this isn't talking about any of the laptops, this is just the desktops, and even then not any of the iMacs (at least only Mac Pros have reported this problem).
"first" hand experience (Score:2, Informative)