Small plastic spheres falling out of macbook pro?

Definitely no sign of Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds in the vicinity, SgtPepper? No frogs or sturgeon in the area either? Do you have a Western Digital "Caviar" drive installed perchance? 😉

Sorry to be flippant, but how bizarre!

More seriously all I can think of are those sachets of desiccant that are sometimes packed with electronic components?

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Rod

Do they look like this?


(from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silica_gel )

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Rod

Another thought: do you have any babies around?

Sometimes the disposable diapers get so wet that the absorbent material falls out in tiny spheres as described.

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No chance there is a broken sachet of silica gel desiccant in the bag you cart your MBP around in?

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Rod

How old is the computer, SgtPepper?

If it is new, I'd be heading to an Apple dealer and asking that it be taken apart to have any more of the offending little blighters removed under warranty.

If it is older I'd be wondering whether a young child , perhaps, has had access to the computer and been "posting" the beads in through the drive slot or some such (such things have been reported here before, though not with silica beads).

Regardless , if the beads are definitely coming out of the computer they need to be cleaned out, especially if they are in something mechanical like the optical drive.

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Rod

Hi,

Just read the topic and would like to add my partner has a PC laptop and the same thing is happening to that too ! I took the bottom case off and there is no silica gel packs or the like inside it ?! started with one or two spheres and carried on over a no. of weeks until about 10/12 fell out some only half spheres ! Laptop still works great and fan still runs so I would love to know what they are.

Custom mini.

The only other thing to consider is this.

Keep those little suckers warm and in about 5 months you might have a bunch of tiny little laptops.

charlie

silica beads are used as a desiccant for the storage of all sorts of electronic componentry, custom mini.

It doesn't always come in neat packages either. My guess in both these cases is that some have simply been missed during the preparation of components during the assembly of the computer, or somehow got loose in the factory and found their way into places they shouldn't be..

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Rod

LOL! 🙂

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Rod

Thanks for that Rod !

Yes I know about silica gel not always being in packets, I work in retail electronics and so know that the little buggers can break free and get anywhere, this is why I took the laptop bottom case off. Still not 100% they are gel balls !?

Custom mini.

Do no, I repeat, do not go to sleep in the vicinity of those spheres. You've see the movie "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" haven't you? I wouldn't take the chance.

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