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Toxic Fumes From Mac Pros?
Fanboi Killa writes "Apple is investigating damning claims, published in a leading French newspaper, that its computers emit a toxic odor containing chemicals including the cancer-causing benzene. Apple has not denied the accusations. Its spokesman, Bill Evans, told Macworld the company had not found any evidence to support the claim but Apple would continue to investigate. Posts on Apple's own discussion boards suggest the Mac maker knew about potentially toxic odors being linked to its computers as early as December last year."
I don't like macs, and especially dislike the mactard syndrome but it seems to me that any computer would be suspect of toxic fumes - ever replace a power supply and notice odor it gives off on powerup? A computer is basically an air pump when it comes right down to it. All the solder, wiring and electronic components certainly must give off some toxicity when they are 'baking-in' and the fans exhaust all that stuff right out into the room.
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1. Elitism. We bought the Mercedes-Benz of glamour computing, so we're hipper than you.
2. Paranoia. We are the minority of computer buyers, and we spend a lot of money, so the rest of you are in conspiracy to hate us.
3. Effetism. We are supposed to be the nice, Progressive, hip and liberal kids, so we can't take a strong stance on anything but hating PCs.
4. Emo. We are from the enlightened future, where everything is how you want it to be, where a cute interface is more important than function.
5. Cognitive dissonance. I paid twice what I should have for this thing, I can't upgrade it, and it has big problems, BUT it has a nice shiny interface. Therefore, it must be better in some mythical way, because I can't admit I'm basically a computer user like everyone else.
6. AIDS. Unproven.
I see the "Apple psychology" as being damaging to computing, specifically open source.
The Apple psychology rewards conspicuous consumption and ideological dogma. It does not reward what open source gives, which is pragmatic function.
The more people use Macs, the more they drift away from reality. I know this post will probably be modded "Troll, -1" but after 23 years of observing Macintosh users, and 11 years of being one, this is why I stay clear away from Apple products: The Smug(tm) wags the dog of the user's psychology.
Anti-Globalism, Traditionalism, and FreeBSD.
That's nice, except mac pros are aluminium cased computers.