[P1] stinky keyboard?

[Pat D. Stephens]

Why not contact Apple and if, and hopefully it is, it is covered by 
AppleCare, they should replace it or tell you what to do.  Bad news to 
have a computer with BO!

Pat
On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 06:26 PM, Mark O'Brien wrote:

> On 1/18/03 4:11 PM, "Rosie Redfield" <redfield at mail.unixg.ubc.ca> 
> wrote:
>
>> I've recently noticed that the keyboard of my iBook has begun to give
>> off an unpleasant smell.  The computer is a 500MHz white iBook, about
>> 14 months old.  The smell began a month or so ago and has been
>> getting worse - it's a rank sweaty smell, a bit worse when the iBoook
>> is warm, and definitely coming from the keyboard itself, not the
>> internal hardware.  I don't think it's dirt (the keyboard is
>> spotless) but some sort of breakdown product produced by aging
>> plastic.
>>
>> Has anyone else noticed this?  There's a recent thread on Mac's iBook
>> support discussions about it, but no consensus on the cause and no
>> solution.
>
> I *definitely* noticed this on the same vintage iBook. My one son had 
> it in
> college. When he came home for Christmas, his brother accused him of
> sweating on the 'Book!