What do you use to clean your laptop?

Looking for advice on what to clean laptops with? I use a microfiber cloth and that canned air stuff for dust, but what should be used to clean off finger prints from body/ screen?

I've read 50/50 water rubbing alcohol, but I was wondering if that would be corrosive to the rubber coating on the 8150..?

Also heard windex was corrosive to use on the screen?

 

Try Pledge for electronics ... I love it

 

Spit and an old sock.

 

I just use straight water and a paper towel. Have to make sure it's completely dry though, or it leaves streaks.

 

If it is corrosive to the rubber, any ideas on if that would help get rid of the rubberized problems on the touch pad?

 

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Many people are suggesting a piece of screen protector. Cut it to size, and it should work well

 

I use LCD cleaning solution and a clean microfiber cloth to clean the laptop surface daily and 96% alcohol twice a month.

Another cleaning tip for intrusive advertisement haters: my x7200 came with two utterly useless, totally uncalled for stickers - one "HDMI" and another "intel CORE i7". Those neither required nor requested stickers harmed the unit's otherwise beautiful, even perfect looks, so I was very eager to get rid of them as soon as possible.

Here's what I found out: after it is peeled off the sticker leaves a very strong glue residue on the brushed aluminum surface. I was unable to scrub it off with any mild cleaning reagent... alcohol or acid was not enough as well, and I was reluctant to use acetone. The solution was eucalyptus oil - it softens the glue residue at once, allowing to scrub it off carefully with a piece of soft tissue. After that, I used some 96% alcohol to eliminate the oil - and so the stickers were gone for good.

Fair warning: the eucalyptus oil treatment left a slightly visible trace on the aluminum - which took a day or two to evaporate completely, so be warned and act on your own responsibility - after all, coping with the sticker is the safest way all around

 

for sticker residue removal, Goo Gone is the best product I have found

 

for cleaning dust and crap out of the keyboard I take some metal screening of the kind in screen doors then wrap it over a vacuum hose with weak suction then slide it across the keyboard. This works well BUT! only slide the device around on the keyboard and DO NOT lift up until the wand has no keys underneath or you risk pulling a key off the board. Practice with the suction turned off to learn how to avoid this dumb mistake. If you have the discipline to be careful the system works beautifully.