This ought to get the Apple fanboys going. The Libération of France has reported that a smell emitted by Apple's Mac Pro desktop line of computers is caused by a combination of toxins. Turns out after some analysis, one of those is benzene, which is well known to cause leukemia. Of course, the folks at Apple aren't getting bent out of shape over this, instead they've firmly denied such accusations.
I decided to do a little more digging after initially publishing this blog post. Since I don't read, write or speak French, I first found a translation of the French article. Then, I went looking for some research in English on the topic, and found a great article on Hardmac.com. While this article doesn't explain how much of the toxic chemicals were detected, it confirms that 7 different (including benzene) toxic chemicals were found in that strange smell coming from a tested Mac Pro.
The really disturbing part? Apple was made aware of the situation over 8 months ago and has done a pretty good job of keeping a solid lid on such shenanigans. Who knows if that Mac Pro will actually give you cancer or not -- why chance it, though?
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