http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/ Engadget Comments for White MacBooks showing premature discoloration? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Feb 18th 2008 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Mar 7th 2008 12:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Jun 13th 2006 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/]]>Jun 13th 2006 9:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/
How would something like this not show up in test units? Last minute materials change or something?

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My iBook is nearly two years old and it doesn't look even almost this bad. Class action lawsuit just waiting to happen.]]>Jun 13th 2006 10:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Jun 13th 2006 10:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/


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If you work in the yard all day and then immediately start using your iBook/MacBook without washing up first this might make more sense.

Another thing to consider is the pictures themselves, these sweat/hand stains appear more severe when hit with the flash on a camera, in the same way that people look more sunburned in photos when hit with direct flash.

If you want to keep your iBook/MacBook spanking new clean I highly suggest going to your local supermarket and picking up some Mr. Clean Magic Erasers. They only cost a few bucks and NOTHING else has been able to keep my iBook looking so good, and believe me I've tried a lot of stuff.]]>Jun 13th 2006 10:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Jun 13th 2006 10:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Jun 13th 2006 10:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/
Dude 1: "I hear macbooks get real dirty after a couple weeks"
Dude 2: "I'm going to buy one anyways, and put up with cleaning it a lot!!"

Maybe all the overheating caused discolouration in the plastic.
You would have to be insane to buy one of these after hearing about all of these problems.]]>Jun 13th 2006 10:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/
DON'T USE TINTED ACETONE OR ISOPROPYL BASED CHEMICALS.

no other cleaning methods have worked. give this one a shot if your macbook is discoloring.]]>Jun 13th 2006 10:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=516645&tstart=0]]>Jun 13th 2006 10:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Jun 13th 2006 10:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Jun 13th 2006 10:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Should it be like this? If this happens to your Mac computer Apple should just provide you with a new one, nothing to talk about...

Is it just me or have this new Intel-macs had alot of problems lately? I never hear so man reports about different problems from any PC Laptop model. I want a Mac, but all these things will make me think twice, or more before buying. Apple realy have to bost their quality.]]>Jun 13th 2006 11:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Jun 13th 2006 11:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/
http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/967/2097/1600/MacBook.jpg]]>Jun 13th 2006 11:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/I have a white laptop. It's called an iBook, and it's 3 years old. I use it every day and there's no dirt on it at all. Sure, I take the time to clean it once a month or so, but I do that with all of my fancy electronic crap.

This isn't about white laptops, it's about the white MacBook. This is an issue particular to those computers, and your comment doesn't help at all. ]]>Jun 13th 2006 11:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Jun 13th 2006 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Though it's true there have a been a few hiccups with the Intel transition, there would be such hiccups with any manufacture, even more with most of them. Apple happens to be very high profile so you're going to hear about a stained white Macbook long before you hear about an IBM Thinkpad doing... well, anything.

I don't suggest buying any new 1st Generation HW (I'm waiting until the next CPU increase + Dual Layer DVD Burner in the Macbook Pro before I buy mine) as there will be problems, guaranteed.

Here are list of the compaints with the Intel Macs:
- White gets dirty too quickly.
- Black shows oils on trackpad too easily
- Aluminum cases on Macbook Pro 'feel' hot.]]>Jun 13th 2006 11:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Jun 13th 2006 11:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/
Oils do wonders (bad) to matte finishes.]]>Jun 13th 2006 11:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Jun 13th 2006 11:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/
What's a laywer? but I agree. Mac is getting cocky. i was a mac convert with a PBG4 but make switch back to a VAIO just cause Apple's arrogance annoys me (more than Sony's). Is there an easy way to run OS 10.4 and XP on a PC?]]>Jun 13th 2006 11:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/
http://www.coppertone.com/products_oilfree.aspx

and it cleared it right up for some reason.

-dean]]>Jun 14th 2006 12:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Jun 14th 2006 12:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Jun 14th 2006 12:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Jun 14th 2006 12:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Jun 14th 2006 12:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Jun 14th 2006 12:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/
Different batch of plastics? Maybe.
Coal miners use these? Maybe.

Who knows... good luck with ours. But I do have to wonder just how anal someone can be about the cosmetics of their tools? If you clean your screwdrivers and use Blue Coral autowax to polish up the finish on your Miller Welder... ]]>Jun 14th 2006 12:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/
http://www.homemadesimple.com/sites/en_US/mrclean/products/eraser.shtml]]>Jun 14th 2006 12:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/
Also I hope by now everyone understands that iPods are made to scratch easily *on purpose* since Jobs expects you to upgrade your iPod every year or two. The Nintendo DS Lite is made out of a very similar material that doesn't scratch as easily and I doubt that Nintendo has access to materials that Apple doesn't.]]>Jun 14th 2006 12:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/
http://techwrap.blogspot.com/2006/06/white-macbook-yellow-discoloration-fix.html]]>Jun 14th 2006 12:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Jun 14th 2006 1:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Jun 14th 2006 1:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Jun 14th 2006 2:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Jun 14th 2006 2:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Jun 14th 2006 2:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/
That's what convinced me to go for the white after I visited the macstore in london, they positively gleam in comparison.

But naturally, most laptops don't have the kind of material Apple uses on theirs which is prone to a lot of dirt. They should make everything Aluminium like the powerbooks/MBP's. I've never had this issue with my 12inch powerbook :-/]]>Jun 14th 2006 3:42AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Jun 14th 2006 6:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?code=7578-MBFP]]>Jun 14th 2006 6:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/]]>Jun 14th 2006 7:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/
For example, my Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse has started to discolour like the MacBook on both sides where my fingers rest and its got a silver finish. Only hours of use can cause the stains you see, you should see the state of my old MS mouse after 4 years use.]]>Jun 14th 2006 7:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Jun 14th 2006 8:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/
If you can clean it off, it cant be a problem with the product...unless of course what you are cleaning off is essentially the top layer of the plastic (i.e. remove stained bit to reveal the white udnerneath), but I find that a bit far fetched.

Things get dirty (yes even mac products too), deal with it. No one complains to the manufacturer when their white car gets road-grime on it!]]>Jun 14th 2006 8:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/How many thousands of people bought these on launch? And…how many people are complaining? Two dozen?
Not switching to Apple because of a few people with bad experiences is a bad decision. And before people ask, no, I don't work for Apple, I switched in 2003.]]>Jun 14th 2006 9:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/http://www.engadget.com/2006/06/13/white-macbooks-showing-premature-discoloration/Jun 14th 2006 9:31AM