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- WackyT, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25So you guys are gonna wipe your MacBooks down with acetone. This ought to be good.
- cmiller1, on 10/12/2007, -5/+24Absolutely correct, well, except for the funny part, but it is indeed a picture from engadget comments.
- xramzix, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17I'm a mac user, but stuff like this makes them loose their credibility...
BTW, smart-asses all over the world are starting to make 'em
http://users.pandora.be/ramzi/trash/mac%20pc.jpg - BadgerOU, on 10/12/2007, -6/+21If you hate apple (and obviously don't have a macbook) why even surf through the comments. It's obvious that you can't contribute something meaningful.
- Yoshi39, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13Sorry for abusing the reply but this is important to note that you should only use Non-acetone clear nail polish.
"I had this same problem, except my machine was discolored in the first few days. I tried 409 and Clorox bleach with little success.
I found that Non-acetone nail polish remover cleans it up nicely. Only problem, my fingers feel like sand paper after using it.
You should use clear, or blue colored Non-acetone nail polish remover. If you use another color it will slightly tint your MacBook that color. Do not use acetone based, or isopropyl alcohol, those may damage the plastic." - davido242, on 10/12/2007, -3/+16iBook G4 test pictures:
Before: http://homepage.mac.com/rawhead/discoloration.jpg
After: http://homepage.mac.com/rawhead/discoloration2.jpg - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+11Not all of it. There's plenty of acetone-free versions.
- Hawk2007, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11dirty hands or clean hands, the oils will eventually build up on the laptop. being a white finish doesn't help the matter either.
- Mesach, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14"I found that Non-acetone nail polish remover cleans it up nicely. Only problem, my fingers feel like sand paper after using it."
That's because they are clean. - Purposeless, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10Did ANY commenters read the material? Use ACETONE-FREE nail polish remover. RTFA!
- TheCount, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9Am I the only one that finds it ridiculous that people would be HAPPY that they now have to use nail polish remover to fix an issue a manufacturer should have addressed before shipping out their product?
I love Apple and everything, I've got three mac's, but if this had been any company but Apple, how many people would put up with this crap? - ThePenrod, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I am skeptical as to whether or not it would work on a MacBook. The tendency is that discoloration on the iBook is dirt and oil from continued use. The MacBook's problem seems to be a heating issue or something wrong with the plastic. As far as I've read the two have very different outer-shells, I was just wondering if anyone has pictures of this working on a MacBook.
- Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Well hair "bleach" isn't bleach either, but it bleaches..
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I use nail polish remover for lots of hard stains, that stuff is strong! It got grease out of this one dress shirt of mine that has been washed a bunch of times normally, with no luck. Dip your finger, get it wet, work it in, repeat. ;-) Five minutes later and she's all good.
- compwizz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6At first I just thought it was dirt buildup like on the iBook. But now I think it is a plastic problem, but I am almost 100% sure it isn't heat related. For one, all of the spots only occur where the laptop is touched, plus the palm rests are some of the coolest parts of the laptop. If it was heat related why hasn't the plastic discolored over the processor where temperatures reach an excess of 100 degrees? So I think that pretty much rules out any heat-related issues. What I think is happening is a chemical reaction between the plastic and something in the oils and sweat of your hands. I bet if you wiped the laptop down constantly where you place your hands it might prevent it, but of course that would be quite annoying to be doing constantly. I hope they find a fix for this problem.
- randatola, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I used to work in an optical polishing shop where it was standard practice on any new tech's first day to hand them a styrofoam cup and ask them to get some acetone to clean a part.
- thedak, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Use a white rubber eraser, pulls it off no problem.
- GuyHersh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Heres what happens when you use Acetone on the new MacBooks:
http://web.mac.com/elhammond/iWeb/Eric%20Hammond/E.%20Hammond/DD6D7B7D-0052-497E-B0C5-26D4EDE0577C.html
This isn't mine, I'm not a retard, but the poster says it seems like thats a plastic rubbery coating on the MacBook that makes it do this and it seems like he could probably peel it off now. What the heck is the macbook made out of? - streetstealth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I have an early-childhood memory involving that substance.
I don't remember what I'd used, but I'd somehow permanently marked a Lego brick (one of those little red roof pieces) that I wanted to un-mark, and my mom tried applying a dab of nail polish remover. It removed the mark quite throughly, taking with it a noticable amount of the plastic!
IIRC, Lego is PVC plastic. What are the MacBook cases composed of? - stokestack, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6It's "lose".
- Hawk2007, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9nail polish remover contains acetone. Acetone is a paint thinner (and rather fun to play with, but that's a discussion for another day).
Anyways, I'd be weary of using a thinning agent on a several thousand dollar piece of equipment. It might affect the plastic finish in the long run - durin42, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5From TFA:
"I found that Non-acetone nail polish remover cleans it up nicely."
So they're not using acetone. - seeSharp, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Try Simple Green cleaner instead...it works a treat!
- RadiantBeing, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4In this case "eventually" means "a few weeks" so yes, this story is about dirty hands.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Your fingers feel like sand because it extracts the lipids out of your skin.
- Mesach, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I believe they are made of Polycarbonate
- valkraider, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3You mean THIS isn't the article?
- Raian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I hope this also works on my Nintendo DS-- which appears to be suffering from the same blemish.
- GuyHersh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Heres what happens when you use Acetone on the new MacBooks:
http://web.mac.com/elhammond/iWeb/Eric%20Hammond/E.%20Hammond/DD6D7B7D-0052-497E-B0C5-26D4EDE0577C.html
This isn't mine, I'm not a retard, but the poster says it seems like thats a plastic rubbery coating on the MacBook that makes it do this and it seems like he could probably peel it off now. What the heck is the macbook made out of? - Hawk2007, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3good point. people bend over backwards to explain apples flaws.
These Macbooks look like a very good product, but it's disappointing mac didn't do more R&D before sending them to production. this similar to the nano and its early screen breakage and scratching issues. - Kitsune818, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I've used nail polish remover to keep my macs shiney since my blueberry iBook.. this is news?
And if you need to test something, try using the inside of the battery cover. Who's going to see it there if it reacts? I realize not everything has a battery cover (my dual usb iBook didn't and I'm assuming the MacBook doesn't) but, in simpler terms, try it somewhere inconspicous first.
As someone mentioned above... use an eraser, a white one or a rubber gum eraser. Works just fine on most things. - stokestack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Umm, no. Did you miss the umpteen posts by people who had white iBooks for years and never had this problem? Stands to reason that not every single one of those people let their hygiene go to hell as a celebration of their new computer purchase.
- ShrimpCrackers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2The best solution is to use a white technical eraser. It removes most of the stain WITHOUT ANY SIDEEFFECTS!!!
The nail polish remover may have negative effects like ruining the paint or odd side effects. A white technical eraser will not. - MaxwellTD, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5im seeing that most of you didnt actualy read that fourm
it clearly says in BOLD letters to use NON ACTAINE NAIL POLISH REMOVER - devo6273, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This is just speculation, but it seems to me that if it was heat dissipation, simply scrubbing it with a cleaning solution wouldn't clean it up. Considering the heat is coming from the inside of the machine, but scrubbing the outside of it removes the discoloration it seems illogical. I would think that if heat was to blame the discoloration would start on the inside of the case and work its way out.
I am no chemist of course, so my argument rules out the possibility that perhaps the heat combined with the oil from your hands causes some strange chemical reaction with the plastic causing the discoloration. But that just doesn't seem as likely as the argument of "the plastic is dirty." - apetrie, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4That's generalizing a bit too much don't you think? You can't really assume that the look of it is not a secondary thought just because they want to keep it looking nice. I might care more about whats under the hood of my car than what colour it is or how shiny it is, that doesn't mean I wouldn't take it to the car wash.
- Raian, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Trying this on my DS lite as we speak-- and it's working! Forget the nail-polish, try the white eraser.
- geronimo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thanks, I was about to try this on my wife's mac, but I remembered that she often gets quite upset when I mess with err fix her computer and something doesn't work right. She'd file for divorce if I turned her pretty mac into goo.
- noGoodNamesLeft, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Apple products cost more and are sold to a far greater extent on their aesthetics; Live by the sword, die by the sword.
- SuperFarStucker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If you RTFA you will see that some people did not have much success with the non-acetone based nail polish but the acetone polish worked fine. As to whether or not it compromised the plastic, they do not say. It is a curious problem and surely surfaced before given that most apple machines sport the 'shiny white' plastic...
For being a top quality machine vendor, Apple sure garners a lot of complaints about their products, both trivial and otherwise... You never, as an example, see an IBM/Lenovo complaints that recieve such publicity. Can this be accounted to the notion that people who buy Apple machines care more about how there machine looks? Is 'getting the job done' not good enough if you're an Apple user? - peorth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The black one peels itself.
Macbooks: The users' choice! Pick between decoloration or a more expensive choice, peeling. - Konnnan, on 12/03/2008, -0/+1I tried this on the palm-rest of my macbook with acetone-based nail polish remover (before reading this post). It's definetly cleaned the colour, but now it looks a little bit weird, and whereas before the area felt smooth, it now feels rougher.
Just a warning. - SDE06, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1LOL! Apple should include a nail polish remover sample with every purchase of apple products - fits the target market :)
- WackyT, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3Or maybe the people who buy Dell laptops and Creative Zen music players aren't as full of themselves as Apple users, and buy electronics wanting them to work properly, unlike Apple products.
- MrViklund, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Until Apple fixes this, buy the Black one.
- khyberkitsune, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anybody that uses acetone on anything plastic must not have paid attention in Chemistry class in high school. Acetone will eat through alot of things, as it's one powerful solvent. Why do you think it's used to eat away at that hard ass acrylic nail paint?
- redfan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Agreed. No reason to be an early adopter for something like this. Especially with the heat problems on these machines as well.
- CannedCorn, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1dell = crap, just like "i" in front of anything made from apple is crap, - iPod, just like anything from mercedes with a k in it is crap, just like you are crap
- TheCount, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well I love the way my macs look, that's not what I based my purchase on, but it doesn't hurt.
- WackyT, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sample? That's an ideal 1000+% markup mandatory accessory only available through the Apple store.
The iClean.
Will remove hippie sweat, oil, and smell from any authentic Apple appliance. -
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