People are finding copper coins inside their MacBooks - and no one knows why
Apple users are reporting a problem which is definitely not in the manual – finding copper coins actually inside their machine’s SuperDrives.
Gizmodo reports that it’s not an isolated issue, either, with customers complaining about finding loose change inside their Apple machines since 2010.
Workers at Apple’s Genius bar responded to a Reddit post, claiming that it might be children pushing coins inside the laptops’ optical drives.
One user who claimed to have worked for Apple’s Genius Bar commented, ‘We’d find stuff like this all the time. Ninety per cent of the time, it was the result of kids shoving things in the Optical Drive.
‘We’d find coins, paperclips, SD cards, you name it. If it was slim enough to fit in the slot, we’d find it in there.’
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But could there be another explanation? A few years ago, a ‘tip’ from a Japanese Twitter user was widely shared online – about using copper coins to cool overheating components in Apple laptops.
Japanese Twitter user akinori_suzuki said that stacking copper coins on his MacBook means that the coins ‘soak up’ the heat, as they’re more conductive than the casing.
Suzuki says, ‘If anyone is having a problem with their MacBook Pro getting too hot and not cooling down, try using some 10-yen coins you have lying around the house. The copper in the yen is a better conductor of heat than the aluminium of the computer and is good for getting the heat out.’
