How to Clean Your Laptop
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How to Clean Your Laptop
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#2Don't do what I did and use a lysol wipe from the bottom of the jar. It had too much fluid, and damaged the keyboard. Modifier keys were frozen in "on" position, and I was unable to login. Now that laptop won't even boot.
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#3Also clean your smartphone. It builds up more bacteria than a petri dish laborant could hope for.
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#4Don't do what I did and use a lysol wipe from the bottom of the jar. It had too much fluid, and damaged the keyboard. Modifier keys were frozen in "on" position, and I was unable to login. Now that laptop won't even boot.
That sounds like basic common sense. I'll also add don't use cleaning fluids on your monitor / screen. Microfiber and a light mist of water on the rag is more than sufficient.
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#5Also clean your smartphone. It builds up more bacteria than a petri dish laborant could hope for.
Do you have a citation for this? Because it surprises me. Most smartphones are hard, dry surfaces, which inhibits bacteria growth.
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#6I appreciate the article's message of simplicity. But still its recommendations go beyond what I find necessary. I just use a microfiber cloth with or without a tiny amount of water and my laptop (an original Surface Book) cleans up just fine. I suppose more would be necessary if I were to spill stuff on the laptop, but so far I've avoided that mishap.
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#7Also clean your smartphone. It builds up more bacteria than a petri dish laborant could hope for.
Do you have a citation for this? Because it surprises me. Most smartphones are hard, dry surfaces, which inhibits bacteria growth.
Any grease on your skin will find its way onto the phone, it's probably not as dry as you would think.
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#8Don't do what I did and use a lysol wipe from the bottom of the jar. It had too much fluid, and damaged the keyboard. Modifier keys were frozen in "on" position, and I was unable to login. Now that laptop won't even boot.
That sounds like basic common sense. I'll also add don't use cleaning fluids on your monitor / screen. Microfiber and a light mist of water on the rag is more than sufficient.
> That sounds like basic common sense.
Agreed. Pushing a wet cloth against your keys is basically wringing it out right over the board.
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#9Don't do what I did and use a lysol wipe from the bottom of the jar. It had too much fluid, and damaged the keyboard. Modifier keys were frozen in "on" position, and I was unable to login. Now that laptop won't even boot.
That sounds like basic common sense. I'll also add don't use cleaning fluids on your monitor / screen. Microfiber and a light mist of water on the rag is more than sufficient.
I used to use DI water back when I had access to it. Though, come to think of it, all the gunk probably re-ionized it.
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#10Also clean your smartphone. It builds up more bacteria than a petri dish laborant could hope for.
Do you have a citation for this? Because it surprises me. Most smartphones are hard, dry surfaces, which inhibits bacteria growth.
I'm not a scientist, but this paper found "high level bacterial contamination" of cell phones: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5466825/
Anecdotally, we were recently in the NICU of a children's hospital and they required washing our hands and cleaning our cell phones before entering. It doesn't seem too far-fetched that they would have a reason for doing so.