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Omaha Steve

(99,065 posts)
Fri Nov 1, 2013, 05:20 AM Nov 2013

Dell laptop buyers make a stink over cat smell

Source: AP-Excite

By BREE FOWLER

NEW YORK (AP) - A noxious feline odor has some Dell customers caterwauling.

People who own Dell Latitude 6430u laptops are complaining that their pricey new computers are emitting a smell similar to cat urine. Some of them said on the company's online customer forums that the odor seems to be coming from the keyboard or palm rest.

The Round Rock, Texas, company originally advised buyers through its forums to try cleaning their keyboards with a soft cloth or compressed air, but the smell persisted.

"The machine is great, but it smells as if it was assembled near a tomcat's litter box," wrote a customer using the handle "three west" on a Dell forum back in June. "It is truly awful!"

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Dell officially goes private, says focus is on you

By Christopher Trout posted Oct 29th, 2013 at 1:49 PM

http://www.engadget.com/2013/10/29/dell-officially-goes-private/

Michael Dell's acquisition of his namesake company is now complete. The purchase under Dell and investment firm Silver Lake Partners was valued at $24.9 billion and, as Dell said during a September investor's call, the company is committed to innovation and customer service as a newly private company. He reiterated that point in a statement today, saying, "Our 110,000 team members worldwide are 100 percent focused on our customers and aggressively executing our long-term strategy for their benefit." In the lead up to the deal, Dell seems poised to re-focus the business around emerging markets, enterprise R&D and acquisitions, and the PC, tablet and virtual computing space. The move to privatize comes after multiple quarters of dwindling profits and lackluster tablet sales for one of the World's biggest PC makers.

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Dell laptop buyers make a stink over cat smell (Original Post) Omaha Steve Nov 2013 OP
Are they sure it's the laptop? More likely, it's Windows 8. Scuba Nov 2013 #1
Some old Apple G3 iBooks had the same issue bigworld Nov 2013 #2
... Frank Cannon Nov 2013 #11
OH FOR FUCKING FUCKED FUCKUP FUCK SAKE!!!!!!!! wtf? L0oniX Nov 2013 #3
took 3 posts to turn this thread into Cheezburger alp227 Nov 2013 #4
The smell of cat uirne will last longer than most Dell laptops n/t KurtNYC Nov 2013 #5
Dude, you got a smell! customerserviceguy Nov 2013 #6
Well, Dell is a major supporter of the GOP and Tea Party primavera Nov 2013 #7
That is BS oberliner Nov 2013 #12
yuck gopiscrap Nov 2013 #8
A lot of plastic stinks so bad now arikara Nov 2013 #9
Eww. I just bought a large cheap flat screen truthisfreedom Nov 2013 #10

bigworld

(1,807 posts)
2. Some old Apple G3 iBooks had the same issue
Fri Nov 1, 2013, 08:28 AM
Nov 2013

They investigated and it came out to be some kind of adhesive used in the keyboards. Smelled like a combination of BO and cat urine. Wouldn't surprise me if this turned out to be something similar.

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
6. Dude, you got a smell!
Fri Nov 1, 2013, 06:13 PM
Nov 2013

Ok, the joke wrote itself, but I'm pounding away at my Dell laptop typing this right now. Picked it up used for $100 a few years ago, souped it up with much more RAM, DVD burner, second hard drive, Bluetooth, and even a remote (for slide show functioning, DVD playing, etc.) and it's still plugging away three years later. Super easy to work on, and the only issue is portability.

I got laughed at by a TSA agent when he saw the size of it when I carried it on board, but it is very nice to have in my motel room at the end of the day, to plan the next day's activities while on a faraway trip.

arikara

(5,562 posts)
9. A lot of plastic stinks so bad now
Sat Nov 2, 2013, 11:06 PM
Nov 2013

that i can't keep it in the house. It does smell like cat piss to me, and the smell never wears off like the new plastic smell used to do. I swear, China is mixing their toxic waste in with their consumer goods to get rid of it.

Kind of clever in a macabre sort of a way I guess.

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