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."
I'll level with you (Score:5, Informative)
Seeing this on the front page is not exactly my proudest submission.
Re:A Feature! (Score:3, Informative)
Re:A Feature! (Score:2, Informative)
How about the issue with the BGAs of the NVIDIA (M650?) GPUs in the MacBook Pros of 2008? Even though it was a manufacturing defect (Apple pointed the finger at NVIDIA and NVIDIA pointed the finger at Apple), as the system integrator, Apple should have made things right right from the start. If I remember correctly, it wasn't until a class action lawsuit that Apple finally did something, which was to replace those computers that had actually gone bad. What Apple should have done was issue a recall and replace the boards of every MacBook Pro in that run.
I had a MacBook Pro from that period and it didn't really exhibit any real problems so I did not qualify for any replacement parts. In December of last year, the computer went kaput -- totally dead. Pressing the power button does nothing: the hard drive doesn't spin up, the CPU fan doesn't spin up, nothing. And of course, the entire thing is out of warranty.
In all my years of using computers, I have never had a computer totally fail as the MacBook Pro did. Perhaps things will change with Tim Cook at the helm but at the time, Apple was a reflection of Jobs' psychopathic way of dealing with people and money.