[P1] stinky keyboard?

[Peter Nacken]

Mine is about 18 month old (if that is possible .. When did they ship the
first 500 mhz icebooks) and the keyboard is anything but spotless ... But I
have no smell here at all ..

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on 1/19/03 9:11 AM, Rosie Redfield at redfield at mail.unixg.ubc.ca wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 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.
> 
> Rosie