Monday, December 04, 2006

Clean my Mac

Does anyone know how to care for a MacBook? My white beauty is dingy gray on the keyboard section. Apparently, white computers gather any imaginable filth that lingers on my finger and hands. The woes of being left handed leave my keyboard even more filthy as the graphite from a thousand comments on student papers is now wiped off on my a,s,d,f, keys and the space bar.

Also, the monitor is dirty and I don't know how to clean it. I tried different sorts of wipes with paper products. Now I mostly use spit and my filthy finger to get the big spots off it.

How the heck are you supposed to keep a computer clean? Why didn't I order the black one? This is going to plague and bother me for years until the entire machine is a solid shade of gray and I stop noticing. I'm gross...

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

my keyboard (on my Dell) is black, but my screen is dirty too. I was thinking of swiping some of my the wipey things my mom buys for her reading glasses to try....

kk said...

You should be able to put some fantastic,409,or some type of cleaner like that on a cloth and wipe everything except the screen. Or if you have some cleaning wipes. That sgould work also.

ninny said...

no!! don't use cleaners..

Anonymous said...

I've been known to use Clorox wipes on my keyboard. It hasn't hurt anything...yet. These screens, though--I have no idea. I'll see what I can find out from techie types.
--Janey

Anonymous said...

some macs have a removable keyboard for maintenace...

Anonymous said...

I use ethanol on my baby (to clarify, I'm talking about my iBook, which is worth more than anything else I own). But then again, I work in a lab so I have access to it, and use it on every at-work surface.

Anonymous said...

This is an annoying problem. Recommendations I've gotten for cleaning the surface south of the keys that gets dingy from your wrists are: Mr Clean Magic Eraser, a tiny bit of 90% alcohol on a q-tip or cotton ball and/or eyeglass cleaner. DO NOT use these on your screen or keys, however. Apple sells a special spray cleaner for the screen and keyboard that runs about $19.95. I also used LCD wipes on the screen and it seemed to work pretty well. I wouldn't recommend using any household cleaners for the screen and keys, though. Also, I heard Apple will replace the plastics for you on the macbook if they are dingy, so you might want to try that, and then buy an isleeve or just wear elbow-length latex gloves all the time...

Anonymous said...

Sorry, i meant iSkin, not isleeve.