Re: Rotten smell raises Apple toxin fears

2008-10-04 Thread Arnel Tuazon
On 03/10/08 7:20 AM, "Simon Royal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > I have had a number of iMac G3s and these smell terrible of burning. I changed > the plastics on one recently and whilst testing it afterward smelt so bad of > burning plastic I thought I had done something wrong. > > But

Re: Rotten smell raises Apple toxin fears

2008-10-03 Thread Simon Royal
www.nmug.org.uk (sent using Nokia E71) -original message- Subject: Re: Rotten smell raises Apple toxin fears From: Arnel Tuazon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 03/10/2008 11:19 Actually come to think of it (or smell of it) my wife's old G3 iBook started to smell like B.O. after it was service

Re: Rotten smell raises Apple toxin fears

2008-10-03 Thread Arnel Tuazon
Actually come to think of it (or smell of it) my wife's old G3 iBook started to smell like B.O. after it was serviced for a new hard drive. That was about 2 years ago and it still stinks when you boot it up. I'm thinking it's the hard drive because the logic board was replaced twice from two dif

Re: Rotten smell raises Apple toxin fears

2008-10-02 Thread Dan
At 2:55 PM -0400 10/2/2008, insightinmind wrote: >Different kind of heating up ... that smells, too ... IMHO. You put oatmeal where? - Dan. -- - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subs

Re: Rotten smell raises Apple toxin fears

2008-10-02 Thread insightinmind
Some people are talking about notebook styled Macs ... is it the battery heating up too much? I thought at one time there was a problem with batteries. Don't care for the sensationalism, either, when we're trying to solve an issue on the LEMList. Different kind of heating up ... that smells

Re: Rotten smell raises Apple toxin fears

2008-10-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 2, 2008, at 11:20 AM, Steve R wrote: > Gawdferbid we should accept anecdotal findings as being anything > that makes Apple less god-like ;-) The plural of anecdote is not data. I have no doubt that some electronic devices smell really bad when they're first turned on and warm up; I'

Re: Rotten smell raises Apple toxin fears

2008-10-02 Thread Steve R
My G5/1.8mHz stinks. I bought it used. The first thing I noticed when I turned it on was the smell. I blamed it on that electronic smell. If I leave it running overnight, my neighbour who comes over for coffee every morning will ask me what smells. When I leave it turned off overnight, he asks

Re: Rotten smell raises Apple toxin fears

2008-10-02 Thread Bruce Johnson
On Oct 2, 2008, at 8:13 AM, Dan wrote: > > At 10:04 PM -0400 10/1/2008, Steve R wrote: >> <http://tinyurl.com/protoxic > >> >> ROTTEN SMELL RAISES APPLE TOXIN FEARS > > yum. benzene! > > This adds a whole new level to the 'ole phrase &quo

Re: Rotten smell raises Apple toxin fears

2008-10-02 Thread Dan
At 10:04 PM -0400 10/1/2008, Steve R wrote: ><http://tinyurl.com/protoxic > > >ROTTEN SMELL RAISES APPLE TOXIN FEARS yum. benzene! This adds a whole new level to the 'ole phrase "pry it from my cold dead hands". - Dan. --~--~-~--~~~

Rotten smell raises Apple toxin fears

2008-10-01 Thread Steve R
<http://tinyurl.com/protoxic > ROTTEN SMELL RAISES APPLE TOXIN FEARS Toxic ... Apple's Mac Pro. Asher Moses October 2, 2008 Apple is investigating damning claims, published in a leading French newspaper, that its computers emit a toxic odor containing chemicals including the can