macbook pro toxic smell

You stumbled into the wrong forum, this is workstation users, not notebooks.

And nothing we can do or offer.

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You're postng in the wrong forum,

Can you sustantiate this for me "even though people in other forums reported that apple techs knew about the fumes"

Bad heatsink paste or not seated properly?

Oh, and DO use iStatPro or Hardware Monitor (or freeware Temperature version).

I have a box, sealed, with Artic silver as even TWO YRS later the stuff in there that I used when installing and using paste with a couple processors.... is terrible. Horrid.

So I do understand and sympathize with and I avoid any out-gasing. There are books that use ink and paper that I won't open. I got a flyer in the mail for insurance and it literally blew me over it was so strong.

More than using the laptop FanControl, I would keep the room aired out, put a Rabbit Air in there to help, maybe an Ion air purifier though those have their own issue I've found.

A few people had strong smell from their Mac Pro workstation, I would guess processor area or PSU, too.

I can't believe you posted this yesterday. I came on today to post the exact sae thing. I've owned MacBook Pros since they first came out. I still have the first 17" MBP on the market. Love them. But...

I recently purchased an MBP 13" and it emits an awful smell. It's a very 'chemically' smell, and the closest approximation I can make to the smell would be if you set a mothball on fire.

I've been getting headaches - and I *never* get headaches - and developing a light cough when I work on my computer too long. My wife tells me my clothes have a chemical smell on them, so I had her smell my MBP and she says it's the same odor.

In any case, is there a known cause for this, and more importantly, is there a resolution?

No way inhaling this stuff can be healthy. I love the machine, but I can't deal with this smell anymore. The entire condo reeks of it after only a couple hours of the machine being powered on.

This may seem an odd question, but do you use an external monitor, by chance?

As for the model I have, it's the 13" i5 MacBook Pro:

Model Name: MacBook Pro

Model Identifier: MacBookPro8,1

Processor Name: Intel Core i5

Processor Speed: 2.3 GHz

Number of Processors: 1

Total Number of Cores: 2

L2 Cache (per Core): 256 KB

L3 Cache: 3 MB

Memory: 8 GB

Boot ROM Version: MBP81.0047.B0E

SMC Version (system): 1.68f96

I took my laptop to the Apple store today, and we ran several programs simultaneously to heat up the CPU and make the fan turn on, but they couldn't smell what I smelled.

And to be honest, I didn't notice it as strongly.

So I'm now thinking it may be some adhesive that needs to be heated for several minutes, maybe even over an hour, before it starts fuming. It needs to reach a boiling point, if you will.

I don't know what to do. Apple thinks it's a "normal smell" but it's making me ill. I'm thinking about just selling it and getting a quad core i7 at the lowest clock speed possible, the idea being that it should run cooler and perhaps not have the issue with fumes.

I really wish I could get someone from Apple to visit the house after the compute has been on for a couple hours. The smell is overwhelming.

I have a mid 2010 core2duo 13" and a mid 2011 i5 13", neither of them smell bad.

Have you contacted Apple Customer Relations about this issue?

Yes, I called Apple Care and took the notebook into the store. They were sympathetic, but could offer no solution. I think the only thing I can do is take it back to the store, have them run a 3D program that taxes the system so it gets good and hot for an hour or so, then let them take a whiff. It didn't help that pretty much every employee at my local Apple Store was recovering from the same cold, so all of them had stuffy noses.

Even though this problem is extremely annoying, I have to admit, having a bunch of Apple techs and other concerned customers picking up my computer and sniffing it had a great deal of comic value.

But the thing still reeks.

Wilbrik wrote:

Yes, I called Apple Care and took the notebook into the store.

I asked if you contacted Apple Customer Relations. That department takes care of customer concerns like yours. They are NOT tech support. If you are in the US - (800) 767-2775

Outside of the US, call Apple tech support and ask politely to transfer your call to the Customer Relations department.

@fixagency

I have the same problems...:(

Have you find out what's the source of the smell? Could it be the battery or maybe a termal paste?

Thnx!

Anyone figured out how to mitigate? I've been working on an older MacBook and a 24" iMac for a few years, just started using a late 2013 15" MBP 8GB ram 2.3 intel duo with an external Thunderbolt and am dying - very chemically sensitive and it's knocking me on my butt, useless for work.