Dust in the speaker holes

Has anyone else noticed a lot of dust in the speaker holes in the new macbook pros? I found an example on the internet to show what it looks like:
http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2008/10/2008-macbookpro-review-2.ars/3

If you live in a dusty environment then you will find your computer gets dusty, W M R.
If this occurs you will find cleaning it is helpful.
That isn't a new Mac that you linked to the picture of, by the way (more than a year old), rather than a "new macbook pro".
I see that it seems to be surrounded by food for some reason. An apparently open packet of crisps straddling the older Apple keyboard on side and a jar of pickles or somesuch on the other! Clearly the reviewer was a bit of a food freak. Perhaps what the picture depicts is the residue of some now eaten Turkish Delight or some sort of foodstuff coated with a sugary substance? Some sort of white powder, anyway!
You don't say whether you are suffering from this problem yourself, or whether you are just curious. Regardless, I think we can assume that the computer in the photo was in the possession of someone who was a tad careless when it came to the possibilities of contamination of one kind or another.
I should also add that, despite visiting this forum pretty much daily for quite some time I am not aware of a single other query about the issue of dusty speaker grills on MBPs! I think we can assume that it is not a serious issue for the majority of owners, and that the photo you have selected comes from an untidy atypical user who likes to chuck his or her food around a bit more than is desirable in close proximity to any computer!
Cheers
Rod

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When I have my MBP on my desk and I look at the machine at a certain angle, I see what appears to be dust in the grill. I'm not sure if this some sort of optical illusion if you will, the small grill holes with the light striking it just right.
Anyways has anyone noticed any dust accumulating in the tiny grill holes?
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Just a thought here on this topic; perhaps I am way off-base totally.
It does look like (from your photo, and from photos of my machine that I have here) that perhaps the holes in the grille directly above the speaker itself are differently shaded than the rest of the holes. You can see that there is an oval within the grille that is darker colored, not appearing to have any (or less) dust in it. That's where I think the actual speaker is located within the grille.
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