Part of me wonders whether or not this is some sort of collective joke by Reddit or 4chan or something. Another part of me is not surprised. Dell isn't particularly notorious for their astute QC.
Users complain their Dell 6430u laptops smell like cat piss
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#125 pages of comments, how bizarre. What could possibly go wrong in manufacturing to make electronics smell like cat piss?
Happens all the time with shady third-party manufacturers in countries other than your own. You get a perfectly nice sample unit that meets all specs and looks beautiful. When the container arrives off the boat with 100,000 production units you find materials have been substituted with cheaper materials, scrap plastic, and scavenged components. Walk into any dollar store and you'll smell something similar to this, ch…
You can get the same smell from the 99 cent set of black soft plastic measuring cups and spoons at Wal-Mart. I'm surprised anybody buys and uses those; no doubt it affects the taste (and possibly safety) of whatever they measure.
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#13Is Dell's assembly line located inside an industrial laundry building by any chance?
Might it have been made in China from auto scraps?
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#14A fake SaaS that does big data with your garbage and a keyboard that smells like cat piss, we're having so much fun in the tech community!
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#15This was a fun read. My favorite post:
'''When you write that the "problem has been resolved," do you mean that when I open my computer it will no longer smell like a pack of well hydrated feral cats have used it for target practice resolved, or do you mean that you have resolved the mystery of what has caused the problem? Jus' 'asking.'''
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#16Yesterday when some apple users said their Macbook battery life had been impacted by the Mavericks upgrade the consensus on HN was that "people blame all kinds of problems on software upgrades". When some Dell users say their laptops smell funny, then Dell has a QA problem.
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#17Reminds me of my sisters Volkswagen beetle. It's got some material under the leather that smells exactly like crayons. It's impossible to get rid of. Not as bad as cat piss but really strong. Gives me a feeling of nostalgia every time I'm in it haha. Google "Volkswagen smells like crayons" and you'll find a lot of VWs in the early 2000s have the same smell.
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#18Part of me wonders whether or not this is some sort of collective joke by Reddit or 4chan or something. Another part of me is not surprised. Dell isn't particularly notorious for their astute QC.
The last time I ordered a Dell product it arrived and would not boot. Did absolutely nothing. Was completely DOA. That put a bad taste in my mouth. Their displays have treated me well though, and their server products are great.
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#19Yesterday when some apple users said their Macbook battery life had been impacted by the Mavericks upgrade the consensus on HN was that "people blame all kinds of problems on software upgrades". When some Dell users say their laptops smell funny, then Dell has a QA problem.
Hard to blame software upgrades for urine smells on new laptops.
I also think users are probably better at diagnosing "The keyboard smells like piss" than software implications on battery life
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#20Yesterday when some apple users said their Macbook battery life had been impacted by the Mavericks upgrade the consensus on HN was that "people blame all kinds of problems on software upgrades". When some Dell users say their laptops smell funny, then Dell has a QA problem.
Was it a software upgrade that caused the laptops to smell like cat piss?