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    What Caused This iMac to Suddenly Start Smoking?

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    Image of Gary_7vn Gary_7vn
    08/27/09

    In reply to What Caused This iMac to Suddenly Start Smoking?
    Maybe he was accidentally sent the top secret prototype for the iToaster?
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    Image of Gary_7vn Gary_7vn
    08/27/09

    In reply to What Caused This iMac to Suddenly Start Smoking?
    I don't know about this. If my computer starts smoking, my first thought is not, "I should viddy this!"
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    Image of nutbastard nutbastard
    08/27/09

    In reply to What Caused This iMac to Suddenly Start Smoking?
    Maybe it just got a job working for an asshole in a hole in the wall pizza shop for minimum wage.

    I know that's when I started smoking, anyways.
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    Image of G-Ram G-Ram
    08/27/09

    @nutbastard: how have I not had you hearted before? Oh well, I guess I'm glad I didn't cause this was a very satisfying heart-click for me tonight.
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    Image of Learethak Learethak
    08/27/09

    In reply to What Caused This iMac to Suddenly Start Smoking?
    Working as a tech I once had to respond to a "My monitor is on fire!"

    When I got there it was steam coming out of it not smoke. She denied spilling anything... and then I poured about a cup of water out of the keyboard in front of it....

    Turns out she had a potted plant handing above the CRT and had over watered it and once the steam came out of the screen she hid the plant in her neighbors cubicle...
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    Image of Scazza Scazza
    08/27/09

    In reply to What Caused This iMac to Suddenly Start Smoking?
    Windows?
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    Image of Zanzan42 Zanzan42
    08/27/09

    In reply to What Caused This iMac to Suddenly Start Smoking?
    Everybody in China smokes.
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    Image of NelsonSquirrel NelsonSquirrel
    08/27/09

    In reply to What Caused This iMac to Suddenly Start Smoking?
    Steam powered iMac.
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    Image of snitch snitch
    08/27/09

    In reply to What Caused This iMac to Suddenly Start Smoking?
    wow what a lucky guy, he happened to had a camera and manage to zoom in at the exact second his machine started to smoke, what a lucky guy he must be, it's like he knew it was going to happen. The Mega million jackpot is $325 million, i wonder if that guy can help me predict the #s.
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    Image of TheGerk TheGerk
    08/27/09

    In reply to What Caused This iMac to Suddenly Start Smoking?
    he probably just has a lit cigarette underneath.
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    ripfire promoted this comment TheGerk was starred TheGerk was unstarred
    Image of ripfire ripfire
    08/27/09

    @TheGerk: And the mac decided to take a hit.
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    Image of ZanWinecor ZanWinecor
    08/27/09

    In reply to What Caused This iMac to Suddenly Start Smoking?
    Since the e is silent, don't you get FAKE, followed by an extended silence? (This is also the sound of one hand clapping, btw.)

    Anyway, my old emac did the same thing... when I plugged it into 220V power. (No, eMacs were not dual-voltage. Yes, I thought all Apples were, also. Hence, the plugging in and the smoking and the new iMac now and whatnot.) My vote is a power spike from the "ultra-reliable" chinese power grid.
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    08/27/09

    @ZanWinecor: Riiight, because his computer next to it is immune to the same power spike.
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    Image of PMZanetti PMZanetti
    08/27/09

    In reply to What Caused This iMac to Suddenly Start Smoking?
    Obviously fake. Looks like dry ice not smoke.
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    Image of Invisible-Echidna Invisible-Echidna
    08/27/09

    @PMZanetti: The dry ice effect is heavier than smoke, and requires water. If it were dry ice it would kind of fall out of it. Not rise.
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    Image of josephers: you're so cool josephers: you're so cool
    08/27/09

    @Invisible-Echidna: Why does dry ice require water? I thought it was just frozen carbon dioxide subliming (sublimating..?).
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    Image of Invisible-Echidna Invisible-Echidna
    08/27/09

    @josephers: Putting it in water amplifies the effect of "smoke". It's an old stage trick used in concerts.
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    Image of GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat GitEmSteveDave_RockinLabCoat
    08/27/09

    In reply to What Caused This iMac to Suddenly Start Smoking?
    I vote Peer Pressure since it started hanging out with that crowd of older Dell Laptops.
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    Image of Yuri Dambyotch Yuri Dambyotch
    08/27/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_♥'sRenegadeIrishman: That's an obvious choice, but I would put my money on bad parenting.
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    GitEmSteveDave_♥'sRenegadeIrishman promoted this comment Yuri Dambyotch was starred Yuri Dambyotch was unstarred
    Image of Renegade Renegade
    08/27/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_♥'sRenegadeIrishman: At least it's not a Gateway drug ... mmm computer pun
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    Image of soulever989 soulever989
    08/27/09

    @RenegadeIrishman: Damn Dell-inquents! *shakes fist*
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    Image of the_amazing_doug the_amazing_doug
    08/27/09

    @GitEmSteveDave_♥'sRenegadeIrishman: yup. it couldn't take the pc's heckling about being able to run their accounting software anymore and just shot itself.
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    Image of FartVandelay FartVandelay
    08/27/09

    In reply to What Caused This iMac to Suddenly Start Smoking?
    "What Caused This iMac to Suddently Start Smoking?"
    Peer pressure?
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    Image of ToVoPro ToVoPro
    08/27/09

    In reply to What Caused This iMac to Suddenly Start Smoking?
    Isn't this irony. Using one Apple product to capture another Apple product f*cking up.
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    Image of Baldyman1966 Baldyman1966
    08/27/09

    @LouisJebber: It would have been really Ironic if he had grabbed his iphone to record this and it had also decided to explode.
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    Image of MaQ MaQ
    08/27/09

    @Baldyman1966:
    :)
    That would be a conspiracy then
    :)
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    Image of KTK1990 KTK1990
    08/27/09

    In reply to What Caused This iMac to Suddenly Start Smoking?
    Now I hope my mac doesnt do that. I own the same type (August 08 imac).

    His mac probably just needed a smoking break and wanted to smoke now and not wait for his owner to move him outside.
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