“Owners of a certain model of Dell laptop have been subjected to very unpleasant ‘cat urine’ odours emanating from their new machines,” Samuel Gibbs reports for The Guardian.
“Dell was first made aware of the issue in June 2013 when a Dell user called ‘three west’ first posted about the smell of a new Dell Latitude E6430u… ‘it smells as if it was assembled near a tomcat’s litter box. It is truly awful! It seems to be coming from the keyboard,'” Gibbs reports. “Dell first suggested cleaning the keyboard and air vents around the laptop to cure the smell, but as more and more users complained of the same stench being emitted from the laptop from different countries and regions, it soon became clear that it wasn’t users to blame but the actual laptop.”
“‘Well, here I am Sunday doing some work on the couch and my wife says, ‘What stinks like cat pee?’ I said… I think its this laptop… she puts her nose up to the keyboard and BAM! It really stinks,’ said gambit29,” Gibbs reports. “For all those suffering from the smell, the only solution was to return the affected laptops to Dell for a replacement… Unfortunately, not all of Dell’s replacement machines were free from odour as one user complained: ‘I just received my 5th replacement 6430u yesterday and the smell is still there…'”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Newsflash: Dell stinks.
But don’t blame beleaguered Dell, what’s left of the outfit is only trying to offer a copacetic experience to their sufferers by making their hardware literally stink at least half as much as the fuckery of an OS they slap into their cat pee-stinking pieces of half-assed crap.
BTW: If you’re on your 2nd Dell Latitude E6430u (Fecal Edition) replacement, much less your 5th, you need to get your head examined post haste.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Now, Now…,” “Denis,” and “Mark A.” for the heads up.]
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That’s hilarious. Still, I can remember when my Mac Pro stunk like garlic after getting it back from the repair shop, once. Better garlic than cat pee, though.
Good news! If anything goes wrong with your Mac Pro, you can rule out vampires as being the cause. 🙂
It went away after a few weeks. I was told the smell came from glue on the replaced mother board. Don’t know how true that actually was, though. I suspect the tech got sloppy with his lunch. 😉
This is news?
Yes! 😝
Cat pee is always news.
Did you mean is it news that Dell stinks? Nah,we’ve known that all along.
Anytime Michael Dell personally takes to peeing into Dell laptops, it is news. Still trying to make a mark in the industry..
Make a mark or leave one?
Marking your territory only works with Fire Hydrants, mailboxes, and trees.
I had old iBook laptops that would get that odor sometimes here at our school. We just put a dryer softening cloth under the keyboard to mask the smell.
I recently found the white keyboard we replaced and it still had the odor.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/1034253?messageID=1034253#1034253?messageID=1034253
Wow, Apple also had this problem! Better not inform the fanbois.
In our IT department, we would talk about the iBooks that smell like “B.O.” So there must be some crappy smelling plastic coming out of China… Maybe a bad formula, and now Dell has it. Sometimes, with these problems, I think there’s some kind of sabotage going on.
What if an employee tosses a bottle of skunk musk into a vat of plastic which then goes towards manufacturing keyboard keys, or maybe an underlayment… It doesn’t get detected right away.
There’s a famous pliable white plastic that develops ‘old geezer stink’ over time. I find it’s commonly used on box fans. Whenever I smell that stench it reminds me of my former sister-in-law and her couch, where many an old geezer’s backside had sat and gassed. Bleh.
Now, whenever I smell cat pee, I’ll think of Michael Dell. Bleh.
And yes, thank you for that descriptive post with my morning tea.
At least they’re not full of pubes.
Beleaguered Dell breaks customer’s laptop, sends replacement full of pubes – April 10, 2008
Blonde, Red Head or Brunette? 😜
OMG. You and Currie above are saving me the calories of not eating breakfast at my desk this morning!
Well as least the smell of Dell’s product’s now matches their reputation and quality of upper management.
I am guessing upper management watched the South Park episode where folks were getting off on cat spray and then being in a Heavy Metal dream.
Adding insult to injury, it also runs that glorious Windows 8 that works like crap.
PlayStation 3 has a funny smell as I discovered recently.
Just could not resist “Grand Theft Auto 5”, alas.
Wow, DELL has really done it!!! It makes CRAP smells like PEE
If you had half a brain, your nightmare might end. No one is forcing you to use Apple products. Get a life.
Does this mean Kenny McCormick will be getting a Dell?
queue: Heavy Metal
Apple uses the urine of Unicorns in making it’s laptop and tablets but we all know that the urine of Unicorns smells like flowers – and success.
Apple should just buy Dell, and make them their “Hee-Haw Demographic” division.
…you can tell it’s a Dell: it smells.
Feline piss cooled PC. You couldn’t make this shit up. Only from Dell Hell.
Apple dropped the cats from OSX Names and dell decided to pick it up. Dell should’ve knows it was the names not actual odors
Comment of the week! Brilliant
Yes, you should get a gold star for that post.
“Duuuuuude — I’m smellin’ a Dell!”
One whiff of that odor and u know urine trouble.
Mikey has been been baptising every laptop with his jizz. It’s his new secret sauce formula.
Absolutely golden!
Cat urine? Isn’t that the smell meth labs give off? Is Dell using Walter White as their chief technology officer?
I thought I saw this filed under the “You get what you pay for” tab. 😆
“Dude – You’re getting a Smell!”
It’s that brand new Dell Ultrabook smell. Unbelievable isn’t it? Lol
Even the photo of mr dell after the article smells like phoooooo!!!
Meeow!
Cue Ted Nugent: “Cat Scratch Keyboard da dat dah…”
You know what else smells like cat piss? Methylamine! Heisenberg lives, and he’s secretly making product in the Dell manufacturing center.
Smells like someone along the line was cooking meth near this keyboards.