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Smoking iMac caught on camera

Filmed on iPhone 3GS...

If you’re reading this story on an iMac - watch out, because you’re about to witness one office worker’s smoking Apple desktop.

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A blogger recently posted a video online that he claims documents his iMac machine in the beginnings of a very dangerous situation, as thick white smoke begins to billow out of the machine’s rear ventilation slots.

The blogger – who filmed the event on his iPhone 3GS - hasn’t given any explanation as to why the fire may have started.

Worryingly, he seems more preoccupied with documenting the smoking iMac than pulling the plug on his machine.

Supposedly faulty and dangerous Apple gadgets have gained plenty of press of late. Earlier this month, for example, Apple was accused of trying to silence a father and his daughter with a legal gagging after the girl’s iPod Touch inexplicably exploded. ®

Latest Comments

Let it burn!

Best thing for it

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White Smoke

Seems obvious to me, he has illegaly downloaded iSmoke from the Vatican, you know, the App that the Cardinals use to choose the next Pope.

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Screams for a software update

Wonder when Apple will bring out a new software update for the iPhone that prevents it from recording anything that looks like an Apple product that smokes/burns?

OK, I'm leaving now...

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Smoke in a Can

Damonlab,

I thought you had found a source of the smoke that comes from all electronics when it fails.

We all know that electronics leak smoke when something is wrong, I thought that there was a source of 'replacement' smoke ;-)

Oh Well.......

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This just in

Cheech, Chong design new Apple desktop machines.

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