Windexreg Electronics Wipes - For Multi Surface, Multipurpose, Display Screen - Residue-free - 25 - 25 / Each - Blue

Funny story. The other night I was on my laptop in the MBR and told DH I could swear I smelled chocolate chip cookies baking. At 1am.

We have no nearby neighbors, are not near any commercial interests, and no one else was up.

I was so confused.

Then i remembered, i was eating a chocolate covered frozen banana earlier in the day. A few bits of the coating fell on my laptop. Sure enough, when I lifted it up to check, tiny slivers of melting chocolate was wafting from under the keyboard.

I don't.

It's not clean.

I have strange selectiveness when it comes to cleanliness. Doesn't make any sense I guess.

Well I wipe it of course from time to time..

Paper towels are not recommended for lap tops, can scratch the glass. I use a special microfiber cloth with an occasional spritz of vinegar.

I use microfiber and spritz it with the liquid spray that came with my TV.

Wait...what? Sometimes I'll stretch my T-shirt over to dust the screen when it gets bad. If it starts to overheat and turn itself off I'll take it apart and clean out the guts with a microfiber cloth and compressed air but...nah.

I don’t clean my laptop enough. But when I do I never use Windex (no no) or paper towels. The only thing I use on the screen is the stuff they give you for eyeglass cleaning and one of those soft cloths that come with. For the metal body of the laptop I clean with water with a few drops of Dawn, like the stuff we use on kitchen counters. I have had two Mac screens that began to delaminate (replaced through AppleCare). I’m really careful with the screen.

I occasionally wipe the keyboard off with a damp paper towel sprayed with some kind of cleaning spray. I don't have open space between the keys so nothing gets stuck between them like my regular desktop keyboard on which I have occasionally used the compressed air. I occasionally wipe the screen with water and whatever I have handy - Kleenex, paper towel, whatever.

I really don't gob up the keyboard or the screen so don't often find the need for cleaning it.

I have figured out how to pop out the keyboard keys, so I take out a few of the ones at the bottom, like, b, n, and m, then I vacuum out the inside. Sometimes I fold over an indecx card and run it between the keys. I wish this keyboard would break so I would feel justified in replacing it.

I had a cat slide off a laptop and peel off a bunch of keys as he went. It was too funny to be mad at him, but many letters wouldn't go back on. Laptops are ephemeral.

I use the nozzle on my canister vacuum cleaner to clean the keyboard. Sometimes I just turn it upside down and bang the crumbs out. It gets pretty gross.

When I'm feeling ambitious I will take a microfiber cloth, dampen it with a tiny bit of water and then run into around the keys of my MacBook. It's rather zen. The keys are black so look fine to me.

My computer keyboard at works gets more gross. I pop the keys on that one occasionally and give the whole thing a good scrub. Many of the keys have hardly any text left on them (from work not from scrubbing) so I don't have to be very careful about getting the keys back in the original places. A VP once sat down at my computer to look something up. At that time the R and P looked exactly alike. He looked at the keyboard, paused with his (two) fingers above the keys, then stood up to go back to his own computer to look it up. I laughed and said "You have to be touch typist here, Larry!" He just shook his head.