I am getting a funky smell coming from my keyboard. I have cleaned the board with some canned air but it still stinks. It doesn't smell like anything burned but more like body odor (yeah, I know, "eww"). I keep my computer pretty clean and I bathe regularly, so I don't know what it can be. Any suggestions? Thanks.
I'm sorry but I just can't belive I was about an hour and a half reading this post... (not such a slow reader, just that i'm at the office)...about BO!!!!!
Has anyone thought that maybe this is another way of Steve Jobs to make us think of our macs as a human person??? it first started with the led light breathing, now BO, who knows, maybe in a year or so, the G4 iBook will come with a toilet...!!!
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G.-
ps: mine is nearly a week old and no BO yet... knock on wood...
You don't have to know someone at Apple to get this fixed. At least I didn't. In fact, all I had to do was ask.
I too had noticed my iBook (dual USB, circa Sept 2002) stinking like armpits, cumin, or my plastic lawn furniture that's been in the sun for a while (why do those disparate things smell the same, I wonder?). I has loathe to sit in a crowded plane with this thing giving off an odor that'd surely be blamed on me. I was distraught thinking I'd have to live with it.
I first called Apple and they told me to let it run for 72 hours with the top open and see if the smell went away. If that didn't work (which it in fact didn't, they instructed me to take it into my local Apple Store. Which I did.
I took it to the Clarendon VA Apple Store. The Genius Desk took a look and smell at it. He proclaimed himself "worried" about the keyboard (something electrical or plastic breaking down I gathered) and immediately informed me he'd order me a new keyboard and install it when it arrived...No charge thanks to the SOVERYWORTHIT Apple Care warranty.
Don't give up hope fellow stinkers! Maybe I got lucky but it looks to me like all you have to do is ask. Might be harder over the phone than if you have a Genius Bar to stink up in person, but I don't know.
You've worried me now, going to have to go and have a sniff of mine to check its ok, last time I did have a sniff it smelt new (ummmm I love that smell!)
I have been having the same problem for several months now (iBook is 2 years old). I think I've discovered the root of the problem with help from a smart friend... his first thought was that it was an adhesive smell, so we peeled back the sticker on the underside of the keyboard and voila! that's where the odor is coming from!
So I'm going to remove the sticker and clean all the adhesive off carefully and see what happens.
