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    Time for a Spring Clean!

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by itsthemechanic, Apr 1, 2009.

  1. itsthemechanic

    itsthemechanic Notebook Consultant

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    ...inside your notebook, that is!

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    That pile of dirty Q-tips is just from cleaning my fans.
     
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  2. Hep!

    Hep! sees beauty in everything

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    If you didn't smoke you'd have less inside there!
    Man, I hate working on computers when the owner smokes around it a lot. It's disgusting.
     
    Hep!, Apr 1, 2009
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    Dragunov-21 Notebook Evangelist

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    I've seen worse - a desktop in a tatooist's backroom... The room was the size of a bathroom, with at least couple of people smoking in it at any one time...

    Can you say sludge?
     
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  4. yuio

    yuio NBR Assistive Tec. Tec.

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    hmmm I think I would have just bought him a new fan and heatsink rather than cleaning it...
     
    yuio, Apr 1, 2009
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    Dragunov-21 Notebook Evangelist

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    I didn't clean it lol, (this was a mate's mate, I'm not a tech or anything), but I just said that if I were him I'd get a new rig and sit it out in another room.

    It was the kinda thing you'd see for sale for like 50 bucks in the paper, like ten years old still running 98SE, but the inside... *everything* was coated with 2-3mm of... tar?

    ew... /hijack, sorry OP.
     
    Dragunov-21, Apr 1, 2009
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  6. es0teric

    es0teric Notebook Guru

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    yeah I recently cleaned out an older NB and it was pretty nasty to say the least. the last time it was opened up was about 3 years ago...
     
    es0teric, Apr 1, 2009
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