Nicotine-plated eMac
Can’t afford one of those fancy gold-plated MacBook Pros? Well, you can apparently achieve a remarkably similar-looking effect yourself for far less money, and look cool while you’re doing it! (Smoking’s still cool, right?) Behold the “Nicotine-plated eMac”.
Flickr user rebelace writes: “This Mac recently came in for service at the store I work at. This brown and black stuff is from smoking and it smelled horrible. Imagine what their lungs look like.”
Wow. Based on this eMac’s insides I’m betting its owner needs servicing as much as it does.
June 11th, 2008 at 11:20 pm
Smoking will ALWAYS be cool!
June 11th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
That is all kinds of gross.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:20 am
I wrote a database for a coffee roasting company. Their was a machine next to each roasting oven where the roasters kept track of information.
A year later we upgraded the system which included memory and hard drive upgrades to the roasting machines. The motherboards were covered with a dark brown tar-like something. It was really kind of gross.
The next upgrade we moved the machines to another room with just the keyboards and monitors next to the roasters.
June 12th, 2008 at 12:47 am
if that thing came to my workshop id void its warranty! urgh.
sidenote: i see your using the Apple approved ‘iCecube Tray©’ for the bits
good ol service manuals 
June 12th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
I’ve seen similar stuff with iMac G3 series machines. The only effective way to clean them was to soak the case overnight in a bucket of water and dishwashing liquid.
One of the Mac repair shops I worked at had a policy to not work on machines that were potentially hazardous, cigarette leftovers were one of them, so were animal infestations, hazardous liquid spills, or broken glass. It didn’t happen often, but I was present to enforce that policy about once a month.
June 12th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Latex gloves anyone?
June 12th, 2008 at 10:46 pm
Back in my college days I had a classmate who had car windows looking like this. But to be clear - no pun intended - it was NOT nicotine that built up this much resin…
God, I miss the 70’s.
June 13th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
I worked for Geek Squad a few years ago and nasty crap like this was common occurrence. I see in the photo’s that he handled it with bare hands. Good luck washing that smell out.
June 13th, 2008 at 8:25 pm
I was given a pile of old CRT monitors a few years ago from a TGI Fridays, that I was going to clean up and give away to Goodwill or others that might use them. A few of them were so full of yellow, sticky, smelly grease that I ended up just stripping them down and recycling the parts. Cigarette smoke isn’t the only disgusting chemical people ingest.