Aha! To the people who said apple would have removed something like this if it was on their forums :P

That's really weird, as every Apple laptop (~6 or so) I've had has the exact same smell, to the point I thought they were scenting them prior to shipment.

My sister's old white Macbook had that problem. I always assumed something melted in it. It definitely has a powerful "armpit" smell when you open it.

I remember that; I seem to recall it being eventually tracked down to a run of keyboards coming from a particular manufacturer that was using bad rubber. I was working at a Mac repair shop at the time, and before they sorted this out, we'd have to give all the replacement keyboards a "smell test" before using them or sending them back as bad parts.

I had this problem with mine and painstakingly removed every key to try to clean things out. Still smells like BO.

Yep, at work we were going thru some old powerbooks prepping them for e-waste and the keyboards had that BO smell.

Apparently its the glue used in the keyboard, or something like that.

Every G4 Powerbook I've ran into has that smell. Eww.