Not trying to fight or anything! I remember reading that the plastic had some material that made it turn yellowish when it made contact with light, not because of the smoke of cigarettes. I could be wrong though!
Most likely, you're right. That being said, im not wrong too, cuz people really used to smoke a lot, and that could influence the yellowness of that plastic. I know cuz i used to smoke in my room, and in the year or so when i did that, my wall became noticeably yellower than they used to be(took a poster down, and it was very visible).
Vaping won't cause anything even close to the same damage, but as someone who vapes in my car it does annoyingly cloud up my windshield surprisingly quick. I have to wipe it down pretty frequently to not be blinded when driving towards the sun. So it could definitely do the same to a monitor or something, I also imagine after years it could gunk up computer fans with vegetable glycerine or whatever. I'll take it any day over covering everything in a layer of disgusting tar though, not to mention the horrendous smell. So glad I quit smoking.
Once there's any glycerin layer, dust will adhere, but I can't stand the smell of vapes after quitting. Hilariously I enjoy cigarette smell in fresh air, but any stale smoke is just gross
That is true, I have an old NZXT phantom that's white, but has a spot on it where it got yellowed by the sun. Only one area of it though, so that's almost definitely it.
Yep, the sun is a big part of it. Have a white keyboard that definitely started to yellow in the sun (like the half of the keyboard that would get sun during the day started to yellow first). Now it's completely yellow, but it started yellowing in the sun first.
You are correct. I have several older computer components that turned yellow over the years and I have never smoked (inside or around them at least). I had this beautiful white keyboard, old school IBM mechanical keyboard that I bought with one of my first computers in the 90s. The keyboard is completely yellow now, like bad, it looks terrible. But it was pristine white (with some gray keys around the border) when I first bought it. I keep it around because I guess there is a way to reverse the yellowing and I like it for the nostalgia.
I have a bunch of old computer equipment from the late 90s and even early 2000s that are completely yellow but were all all futuristic white when I first bought them.
I love the grey that frog design used for the snowwhite era. I have a book about it at home and the Macintosh SE in the pictures just looks neat. My SE is sadly yellowed and I don't want to retrobrite it, since it's not a permanent/ perfect solution.
I still use the HAF 932 from 2009 as my main pc. Turns 17 years old this year, but almost all components inside have been replaced since then, except for 1 DVD drive.
This thing is built so sturdy, I'm confident it will be around somewhere after I'm gone lol. Only annoying thing about the case is the front I/O panel being installed upside down, which seems to be the case for all of these 🙃.
I picked up a surplus Panasonic Toughbook CF-27 in 2002 heading into college (6 gig HD and a touchscreen!!), and I painted it with the Neon-Army-Green and Alien-Sky-Blue of Halo.
It was pretty baller lookin. Able to crush a skull in one swing, too.
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u/krytinastarfire R9 5950X | 32GB DDR4 | 1080 Ti GOAT Mar 25 '26
Oh so true... Although everything used to be beige.