Yellow discoloration How-to get rid off it?

Well from what I read from some of the deleted posts, it started showing a pattern. Some Macbooks after a specific serial number didn't have this problem. But then after we started thinking that there was a pattern turns out that Macbooks even after the specific serial number did in fact have a problem. I don't know the serial number so I can't provide it, but right now it seems that it can affect all of them.

Does this decoloration problem occurs to all macbooks
or just someones?

No stains at all here... Three weeks (I think) old. Several hours daily of use.

Well as you can see here there are macbook upto week 22 with this problem (week 22 being June 5th to June 11th.

But then again, remember that those built on Week 23 have only been used for a week, 1.5 week tops, which wasn't enough for my macbook (week 21) to show any stains. After 2 weeks of use I could see a slight shadow of a stain and now 2.5 weeks later it's quite evident there's a serious stain here. I tried to take a picture a few days ago and you couldn't see it but now you can. I will post the pics in that website I gave above so you can see.

I foresee that at the end of this coming week, we will have a lot more week 22 macbooks and probably one or two week 23.

I have been advised by my family's attorney to take this case to the Trade authorities in Spain and see how this is taken from Apple, in general the customer protection laws in the European Union are quite strict.


Just one thought: I realised about this problem almost a week ago, as I said, it was a failrly fain shadow-stain. Then I started take VERY GOOD CARE of my laptop (ok, notebook :D). But it got worse. Way worse. No cleaning stopped the progressive damage of the plastic. Oh, and washing my hands twice as often as I used to * did not help either. Also, no cheetos involved here. Hate them


* Note: I have to wash my hands very often because of my work, I'm a scientist and need to work in an sterile environment so the cells cultures don't die. So, I used to wash my hands very often, now I do it twice as often to keep my macbook from further damage. Guess what, it's not helping. APPLE

Jose M olaya
You said you are a scientist, i know this is not he topic of ths forum, but i want to study chemistry, should i buy a mackbook or a mackbook pro?

get a black macbook with 2gb ram, and get Windows installed on Parallels.
That should be more than enough for a few years. There's some chemitry software only available for Windows hence the suggestion to get it installed in parallels, so you can run it side by side with MacOSX (no need to reboot the computer with Boot Camp)

thankyou, but if i buy the white one do you think it wont be enough?

I have a 10 day old white macbook 2.0GHz and I went to the Apple store to see if I could exchange it for a black. I had already cut out the UPC of my box for the nano rebate for students so they said that if I brought my macbook in, the geniuses would try to clean it and then if they couldn't they would let me trade it and then pay some for the black model. However my discoloration isn't bad at all I clean it everyonce in a while and use an external kboard.. but the thing is I know it's prone to get discolored.. so I have 4 days to get it really dirty and get apple to help me with a black one, or just order that invisible shield. gah.

No, it's because Apple is having this issue with discoloring white macbooks. It's a lottery, you never know if your macbook si gonna show this problem. So better by safe than sorry, get the black one or wait until this problem is fixed.

anyone try simple green?

You all have ring around the Macbook. It's a rather simple yet elusive chemistry.
There is no simple way to clean it for a computer.

Bleach? Wiping with chemicals won't do it or harm it. I tried it on my 3 year old keyboard many times. It's a lost cause there. There is a discolor on parts I never touched and then you can see the original white on the strip by the delete, \, return, shift keys.

I can also see yellowing on the top of the 1/4 of all the keys (I took my keyboard apart).

To have such a discoloration on near new notebooks is disturbing.

Treat it like a dirty yellow shirt and nuke it with chems. It's only a $1000 computer and it's already ruined.

I've been noticing this on iBooks for years; they're white and unless you're albino, we're not... usually I would just use some nail polish remover or alcohol to clean it off in the past.

I also have some discoloration. Also i noticed a few other people have been getting the green stains on the feet. anyone know what this is from?


MacBook Mac OS X (10.4.6) 1.83Ghz White

We know this, but in the iBook the stains take months to appear, not 1/2/3 weeks like with the MacBook

hi, is the shieldzone actually any good as i am considering ordering one for my macbook as i concerned about the discolouration and i want something to protect it incase it happens, has yours come yet? and as any discolouration emerged yet?

thanks

Cases are not reported as many as in the previous weeks, and the problem seems to have been controlled. Does anybody also feel that ?