Posted in French boffin: Mac Pros emit toxic fumes
Posted Thursday 2nd October 2008 11:14 GMT
Re: Oh Dear! Some French boffin needs funding
Quote: "Guess what? If your device contains a phenolic printed circuit board (almost everything uses these).."
Only cheap 'punch and crunch' PCB's use phenolic resins.
Modern, high value PCB's (read: motherboards and expansion cards) use Epoxy or BT Epoxy resins.
If there are phenolic PCB's to be found anywhere in the MacPro (or any other PC) they will probably be inside the PSU.
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