ibook smell

Jeff,

You read it right:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=34883

WARNING: Do not use acetone, alcohol, or any alcohol-based cleaner on your computer.

I have read of alcohol leaving permanent blotches on the display.

Apple recommends iKlear.

You can find a new keyboard at MicroDoc (if you are out of warranty).

Jeff,

You are correct, but that includes the straight-chain alcohols such as methyl alcohol and ethyl alcohol (although I'd rather drink that). Isopropyl alcohol is safe to use on any plastic or rubber material (you can use it to clean the pinch rollers on your tape deck or casette deck - I still have both) although I still wouldn't leave it there in great quantaties for a long time.

One of the advantages of a chemistry background.

Doug

P.S. I do it all the time on mine, at work on others and on those who I visit and take exception to the grime on their machines.

I'll get it and try it on the very corner of my display. If it doesn't do anything, then I'll clean the display fully, but first, I've got to get the product... lol...

Hope its availiable eher in Australia... lol...

Jeff

I think I'm going to try to see if apple will replace it. man it's so disgusting. Hope it goes thhrough.

Jeff,

Coles or Woolworths - it's sold as "Isocol" and is rubbing alchololand "antibacterial lotion" appears on the front, under the picture of a crocodile with sunglasses on. It's package size is 345 ml and it costs under $7. You'll find it in the medicine or cleaning aisles. Its barcode number is 93209403. Some Woolworths don't have it while others do.

Doug

Lol, good one. Actually it works! just cover the lcd with printer paper and spay one time over the the computer about a foot or 2 above you olny want to mist it. Don't over do it. The mist will fall onto your keyboard and now... when your iBooks top is open you'll be, huh, it smells good inspead of eww! lol.

-Wes

Well I finally got a new keyboard and NO MORE SMELL!
It is wonderful to no longer worry that someone might think the smell was me!

Cleaning etc did not work - new has - at for a month now!

I am still so grateful that this discussion was hear so I knew I was not crazy.
A funny aside- we have about 12 iBooks set up in a "computer lab" in an elementary school and I noticed the other day - "the smell"
I wonder how many kids or teachers are blaming a smelly kid!

THANK YOU! I thought I was going crazy smelling this funky smell off my keyboard. Does anyone know what causes it? (I've actually encountered this before: the mailboxes in my old apartment building smell the same, as do the CD holders from my local public library, so I'm thinking it might be an adhesive stink.) Is this a pervasive problem or only on certain models? It's not terrible, but, by the same token, I wouldn't tout it as a desirable feature in an iBook and would actually like to get rid of it. I'd love to hear from more users. Thx.

Hi, Jose. Welcome to Apple Discussions.

You want to hear from MORE users?? LOL.

Have you read this entire thread? Not much more to say.

Live with the smell, use some sort of deodorizing procedure (many recommended here, with varying degrees of success), or replace the keyboard.

Beth- So far, so good.

-Wes

Beth,

Here is the link to the instructions for replacing the keyboard:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=111917

I think you mean gas chromatograph. SEM will show you what the surface looks like, but won't give any useful data about what it's made of.

A gas chromatograph will bombard the plastic with energy and see what the components of the output gas are.

Neither of which will really help 🙂 Just being picky.

Thank you so much for bringing this to my attention. Up until now, I didn't even notice it. Now, I find myself sniffing my stanky keyboard. Now it's driving me nuts...

Almost to the 2 year mark people!