NoctuaAthene wrote:
What you have demonstrated is the perfect example of a non-causa/pro causa or false cause fallacy.
I am sorry that something happened to you but, whatever it was, wasn't caused by your MacBook Air.
I am sorry if I did expect the Apple support to interact here, my mistake.
About nickel usage, it is everywhere: even in pretty much every stainless steel cookware, what are you talking about?
Every time you go into a restaurant you have a 90% (and I'm low-balling) chance of eating nickel, shared both from the things you eat or from the cookware used.
And you say that Apple won't use it just because is a potential carcinogen... I would have hoped so, but that is not the case. As reasonable as my tests can be, I can assure you that my Macbook Air M1 has nickel on all its metal surfaces.
Again, not scientific, but my chemical test still applies, I even bought another (different) one and it still tests positive.
Just to let you know, it's a very acid reactive that has to be held in contact with the metal for more than 40 seconds, and if that object contains (even very small parts of nickel) it will turn red-ish. Some tests react even to other metals, not mine.
Now, I have carefully washed my Macbook air surfaces, and within an entirely nickel-free flat, I would be glad to know where could I have taken nickel to make that reaction happen.
I was just trying to inform people that read the other answer that it is not true, and that nobody in the whole Apple world was able to confirm that there is no nickel in their products, they just say that it's recycled aluminum and when I tell them about my nickel allergy, they say that they don't know the exact metal composition.
If you want to keep saying that this is an example of non-causa/pro-causa, I can't deny your position, but that's my word against yours (for no apparent reason, since I'm trying to help people that suffer from allergies).
But for you, it's not enough, and I respect that. As you have to respect my experience and allow me to inform everybody else that could have the same experience.
But since I am sure that all my products in my home are nickel free, or I would have not been able to live as I do by now, and you can be more than sure of that: I have a really bad and specific reaction to nickel, both by contact and ingestion.
Have you ever had a nickel allergy? Do you know that my skin aches as soon as I even stay in contact with a nickel-plated product for more than 20 seconds? Go tell that to my hands.
Tell'em they're wrong, while my skin splits up as a book.
Scientifically proven? Absolutely no.
But I had the same identical experience that I had with any device stating that it didn't contain nickel, while it did.
Of course, I can make the claim, it's the only thing that makes me have those kinds of reactions to my skin.
If you don't want to believe it, it's fine, I'm just trying to spread some experience since Apple support was not able to give me an answer to that, and the only answer I found online (first google search) was wrong, in my unscientifically proven experience.
You have no idea of what a recycled metal can contain, and neither apple support nor stores do, even if they call it as they wish until you have a scientific test made at the factory.
Just to inform you, all the metal alloys that I use have a detailed percentage of the contained metal and are entirely nickel free, since I had instant reactions to metal objects respecting carefully the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel_Directive, even (and above all) when I didn't know or I didn't expect it.
