Dell users: Laptops 'smell of cat urine'

[onehandle]

Dell engineers have ruled out biological contamination, and said the smell was not a health hazard.

The problem lay in the manufacturing process, which has now been changed, the company said.

Users affected by the issue should send their laptop back for replacement parts.

Customers first raised the issue with Dell's high-end business laptop in June.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-24741832

[pintobean]

1. The 'smell of cat urine'

lasts a hell of a lot longer than a Dell laptop.

[KurtNYC]

4. +1 LOL

[Bobbie Jo]

16. Right?

[Initech]

18. True dat!!!!!

[HillWilliam]

21. Well, we know what DELL stands for:

"Doesn't Ever Last Long"

[Orrex]

2. The whole internet smells of cat urine, and no wonder!

Cat pictures outnumber porn by an order of magnitude!

[polichick]

10. Ha! I do wonder why "cat people" are such big photo posters...

compared to "dog people."

[frazzled]

17. Here, have some fun at "Dog Shaming"

http://www.dogshaming.com/

[polichick]

19. Such sweet faces!

[HillWilliam]

22. At least the last one has an easy fix

A tablespoon or two of plain Greek yogurt. They love it and it replenishes the flora in their gut.

I have a Weimaraner mix who could blister paint right off the wall with her explosions. Knock a buzzard right off a maggot-wagon. A couple of spoons of plain Greek yogurt and she hasn't gassed us since.

[JimDandy]

3. It's the plastic parts. I've smelled that with other

plastic items.

Must be something about the manufacturing process that can change the smell in the plastic. Every once in awhile, plastic bags from the grocery store will have a moldy smell. Happens no matter what store the bags are from.

[tridim]

6. Urea?

[MineralMan]

9. That's it. Heat up the plastic and that gasses off.

Nasty smell. Bad formulation of the plastic, probably right over the battery. Heats up - cat pee results. Funny.

[Silent3]

5. That's just the "Intel Inside". n/t

[pinboy3niner]

13. What do you expect when you get the 6430pu? nt

[joeybee12]

7. Stop building the laptops at the ASPCA! nt

[reflection]

8. Urea Heap n/t

[MineralMan]

12. Nicely done!

[randome]

11. Ah, piss on Dell!

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Treat your body like a machine. Your mind like a castle.[/center][/font][hr]

[Arkana]

14. Ahahahahaha.

If HP wasn't too busy self-destructing they'd be able to do something with this.

[MineralMan]

15. Urea-Formaldehyde plastics are great.

Hard, glossy, can be produced in any color, rigid, impact-resistant, and good electrical and thermal insulation properties. Cheap, too. So, what better for a laptop case? Of course those cases are made in China, and the plastic was formulated a little wrong, so warm up that plastic, and you smell whatever free urea is present. Looks OK, smells bad.

This is a quality-control problem. China is full of quality-control problems.

Ironic that this stuff shows up on high end laptops.

"Dude! Check out the sick laptop I scored at work!"
"Stinks, man."
"What? I don't smell anything."
"Its what you've been putting up your nose, man. It's hosed your sense of smell."

[KamaAina]

20. I can haz interwebs?