Smoking Near Apple Computers Voids Warranty

[Puck Head]

Like Jobs and Woz never smoked anything:

Smoke Gets In Your Imac: Smoking Near Apple Computers Creates Biohazard, Voids Warranty

[SheerLuckHolmes]

LMAO

[BearMXC]

I find that humorous. Very very humorous

[JohnandMe]

Did you read the comment from one of the anti-smoker on there - "I ask smokers I see smoking in public why they want to commit suicide in public, and they have no answer" - their probably to busy blowing their smoke in her face.

I wonder if she goes up to over weight people and askes then if their trying to commit suicide or if she is more selective in her complete hatred for certain people?

Funny Stuff

[frogbmth]

Ask her back if she is trying to get slapped in public for asking stupid questions of strangers

[gooney0]

This is bad news for my 24" iMac with the extra 3 year warranty.

Biohazard is nonsense.

I have killed a video card with smoke. It had it's own duct and fan. The heat sink was covered in smokey fluff and overheated. The fans actually draw in dust and smoke.

I opened a friend's computer after years of use in his smokey office.. it was really powerful. It smelled like 1,000 Marlboro Lights. I could have cleaned it with a melon baller. The tar didn't kill the PC though it died of old age.

-Gooney0

[frogbmth]

What about pets? My PC is full of dog hair every time I open it up, darn stuff gets everywhere

[MrKai]

...on the same story.

"Biohazard" indeed.

What was worse was some ignorant stoner seemed to think that "tar" was an added ingredient to cigarettes and that ......... smoking was devoid of it.

Idiots.

-K

[solaar]

What was it with 'an apple a day keeps the tech away' or something like that? But seriously, I heard the same kind of story about a Dell machine that was apparently clogged up so much with 'something' that the techs found their refuge in the tired old smoke paranoia and refused to service it. Even with their gloves on, that is.

Having experienced first hand smoke next to computers for many years and serviced them myself, it very much sounds like one of those urban legends, such as the tarantula in the Yucca tree. You'd have to literally chain smoke, permanently blowing the full drag of smoke directly into the hardware for years to get any of those alleged symptoms. It's probably more like the blanket management instruction 'if computer just smells ever so slightly of smoke, don't even make an effort to open it but put it on the 'refused list' right away.

[rothenbj]

I guess that would follow through to Ipods and Iphones too. I wonder what form of biohazards might be picked up from riding around in your car all day with either in place. You don't think an open fireplace also creates biohazards? Apple can save a lot on selling warranties they won't honor. A wonderful world we live in.