PlastiTech
One of the best smells to me is the smell of new and warmed plastic when using a PC you just put together for the first few times.
It takes me back to when I was still living in Allen Park with my parents. I put my first full rig together probably in late 2001 or early 2002. Parts strewn all over my room, boxes, bubble wrap, anti-static bags, foam peanuts, twist-ties, spare screws, user manuals; all there in a tiny ten by nine room. It was a Windows box with a 1 GHz Duron processor, probably about 256 MB of RAM and an IBM DeskStar hard drive (aka, DeathStar for the abnormally high failure rate on the drives) which failed on me after my trip around the country in summer of 2002.
Since that time I've put together about three or four other full machines and done a few upgrades or amalgations with existing - but old - parts. Not to mention the numerous shit-boxes that have been used to experiment with Linux but with failure results everytime.
Point is, smell is one of the stronger senses for me.
It takes me back to when I was still living in Allen Park with my parents. I put my first full rig together probably in late 2001 or early 2002. Parts strewn all over my room, boxes, bubble wrap, anti-static bags, foam peanuts, twist-ties, spare screws, user manuals; all there in a tiny ten by nine room. It was a Windows box with a 1 GHz Duron processor, probably about 256 MB of RAM and an IBM DeskStar hard drive (aka, DeathStar for the abnormally high failure rate on the drives) which failed on me after my trip around the country in summer of 2002.
Since that time I've put together about three or four other full machines and done a few upgrades or amalgations with existing - but old - parts. Not to mention the numerous shit-boxes that have been used to experiment with Linux but with failure results everytime.
Point is, smell is one of the stronger senses for me.