Dell Fixes Ultrabook That Smelled of Cat Urine 133
Sockatume writes "The BBC is reporting that Dell's Latitude 6430u Ultrabooks have an interesting characteristic you won't find in any Macbook Air: the palm rest emits an odor like cat urine. An issue with a manufacturing process is thought to be to blame. Although Dell has assured potential customers that the issue has been fixed, reports in the Dell support forum indicate that units with the novel fragrance continue to ship out to users. Dell staff state that the palm rest will be replaced by Dell at no cost, but only if the unit is still under warranty."
Stands to reason (Score:5, Funny)
Dude! You're getting a Smell! (Score:5, Funny)
obviously this is why they don't ship mice with laptops, they were all eaten.
Re:Stands to reason (Score:5, Funny)
dell has a 'drug free workplace' policy and insists all employees be piss tested.
now, FINALLY, I understand why.
they were looking for materials suppliers, of a sort...
Do not meddle in the affairs of cats... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Stands to reason (Score:5, Funny)
What do you think the "u" in 6430u stands for?
Re:Pissed off customers (Score:4, Funny)
and I thought only IBM sold a Pee-series
Surprise! (Score:3, Funny)
"Urine" for a surprise!
Re:Pissed off customers (Score:4, Funny)
I was disappointed to not find any Frosty Cat Piss posts down at -1.
Re:Macs had a similar issue not long ago (Score:4, Funny)
Well obviously Apple patented human BO and Dell had to look elsewhere.
Re:OK, Dell (Score:2, Funny)
when I was a kid we had our cat fixed, but the liter box area still smelled like urine
Well, maybe you should have used a pint box instead. ;-)
Re:A Feature! (Score:5, Funny)
Are you kidding? They would delete the comments on the community discussion board and tell the users they're smelling it wrong.
Re:Stands to reason (Score:4, Funny)
Actually meth labs also smell like cat urine. So it might be that all the tiny elves that live inside the device were "overclocked" so to speak.
Re:Do not meddle in the affairs of cats... (Score:4, Funny)
So that's the fix... uninstall Windows?
Close...the problem was that the machine was running Windows XPee.