Why is this still a problem with modern plastics?
it's a feature
It's called "patina" and actually gives the hardware "character", shitlord.
>>54152742
UV radiation breaks down an awful lot of pigments over time.
Looks like my teeth
>>54152742
Premium price with shit tier materials? Yup, it's Apple.
>>54152790
The character that the keyboard is a heavy smoker? Neat!
>>54152742
That's a big keyboard
>>54152870
for you
>>54152843
Premium price with shit tier materials? Yup, it's Sun.
>>54152742
UV fucks your shit up. the lighter the plastic, the worse it seems to be. my SNES look like a cigarette filter.
>>54152870
that's a normal keyboard.
>>54152920
Hothead
>>54152936
what?
>>54152742
There was once a time when computers would become completely obsolete and cumbersome within 2 years of purchase and the yellowing reaction of the plastic simply served as a reminder that it's time to upgrade.
Modern plastics?
Are there plastics that aren't modern?
>>54152997
i remember those days. one day you're on top of the world with a 166mhz pentium, then some cunt at school is all like "we just got a pentium II 400mhz compaq with a 7gb HD and 128mb of ram" so you steal it from him and break his legs while he sleeps.
>Why is this still a problem with modern plastics?
It only affects ABS plastic which has bromine added as a fire retardant.
>>54152890
Ultra 5 was entry level workstation, not premium one.
>>54153045
Happy?
>>54153036
Painful and accurate, but not painfully accurate.
>>54153036
Ahh, the days when they took out the mouse balls and threw them at each other in the classroom for shits and giggles until someone got hospitalized.
Those were the days.
>>54153855
Those shits were HEAVY
>>54153904
That's exactly why that shit was so fun
...if you were on the winning side
you can still whiten those with hair lightening cream
>>54152742
heh
apples to oranges
>>54154533
Oh fuck you
>>54153040
>retardant
>retard
XD
>>54152742
Because nobody can create a good flame retardant that doesn't mobilize at an atomic level when exposed to UV radiation
>>54152879
I hate this with a passion. You make up some elaborate story that carefully inserts 'your a big guy', or something along those lines, and some hothead is so lazy to just say 'for you'
It should be 'Nah, its a pretty normal sized keyboard. At least for me anyway, it might be big for you'
>>54154955
>complaining about lack of rigorous memeing
time to reconsider your life choices senpai
>>54154982
This is all I have left in life
>>54154533
>>54152936
Fucktard
>>54152805
>tfw you see a sign with black text on it with empty spaces and you realize that there was red text in those spaces
>>54152997
The chemical that turns yellow is added to the plastic as a fire retardant, if I'm remembering correctly.
A little retrobrite would fix that yellowing.
>>54154982
Memes are a pretty serious subject m8
>>54152953
Pic
>>54154955
For you
>>54154533
That was pretty shrewd.
>>54152742
[spoiler]inb4 he uses retrobright[/spoiler]
>>54152890
doesn't yellowing take at least half a decade?
>>54156530
is this about chemicals?
Its because of smoking near your computer
>>54152790
>patina
>on plastic
I believe its party due to shit added to the plastic to make it fire retardant and how it reacts with UV light.
>2016
>buying beige hardware
You guys know that a little hydrogen peroxide will make old plastics like this look new again.
>>54158411
It depends of the content of boron and exposition to UV light.
Probably the Apple keyboards were made with a high level of fire retardant and exposed to sun or fluorescent tubes more time than the sun workstation.
>>54159764
>*bromine
My fault.
>>54152742
don't smoke around your electronics fag
>>54152742
Nah, they're all fucking black now
>>54159676
That's the thing, it wasn't 2016 ya duck.
>>54159764
interesting
So a lot of the black and gray hardware is still probably this material composition
>Beige
NEC had the right idea
>>54161542
noice
>>54152742
>i like apple because they are white, not like those crappy beige pcs
5 days later
>my computer turned beige, damn pcs, welp time to buy a new mac
>>54153045
but it still commanded premium prices
>>54161591
grey designs just turn an ugly olive drab
>>54161542
lol
>>54161734
>grey designs just turn an ugly olive drab
some had that from the factory
>>54152742
What the shit? My keyboard is more than ten years old and has no yellowing at all.
heavy smoker is heavy
