Whether you’re struggling with crumbs, dust, fingerprints, pet hair, or sticky residue, you should be able to clean your keys with materials you already have lying around. And with so much of your work, school, socializing, and entertainment now taking place online, you’re probably using your laptop more than ever. Remember never to use toilet/kitchen paper, use instead any 'approved' cloth (like iKlear, TomBihn, etc.) the 'micro fibers' are designed to not scratch your surface.According to research done by IT company CBT Nuggets, your laptop’s keyboard could carry 20,000 times more bacteria than your toilet seat. Regarding products like iKlear and such, they are ok, in fact I'd recommend you always get a bottle of iKlear around, it's good to have and their small wet towels are very handy for quick clean. Of course, you can always shutdown the computer too. All it does is make your screen black (so you can clean it better) and lock your keyboard so you don't trigger accidental keys while cleaning. Also the low concentration makes it safer against things that may get damaged by the usage of pure alcohol like rubber compounds or human skin.įor occasional cleanup you can use the simple, free and excellent Keyboard Cleaner. With that solution, you're safe to clean all your mac and the alcohol presence guarantees a slow but secure grease removal without leaving the typical alcohol stain/residue that occurs when you use pure alcohol. I use a bottle cap, fill it with alcohol three times then the same cap with water seven times (you can use something bigger if you want more). The ideal solution (that I've found after years of cleaning Apple products) is not to use alcohol directly.

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