Clean your white MacBook

Placing stickers on and then using goo-gone, seriously.

I usually using rubbing alcohol on the plastic parts of my computers. It's not corrosive, evaporates quickly and hasn't failed me yet! I've never tried it on displays though (not sure I would, just doesn't seem like it would end well...). i find it especially useful on the mighty mouse. And after you're done cleaning, you can have yourself a nice drink (NOT REALLY!)

Use rubbing alcohol and mix it with water. That will work to clean the screen.

i've heard alcohol can damage certain displays, i'm not sure if that's the case with mac's but just something I've heard. I do use alcohol pads for the keyboard though!

Yeah, skip any liquids for the screen. I find that an eyeglasses cleaning cloth, wetted with a few drips of water or a touch against the tongue, does a great job cleaning the screen without any worries of liquidification.

I spray a spray or two of eyeglass cleaner onto an eyeglass towel thing and it works real well.

i use a latex-free pencil eraser for the keyboard trackpad and all surface thats not glossy like.

for the screen and the "body" one of those eyelens cleaners.

Use a soft, lint free cloth, and dampen it with deionized/demineralized or distilled water.

I use this to clean the diplays and any other surface of the macbook. Using distilled water will pevent streaks from minerals in the water when it drys, not to mention pure water is an incredible solvent, as well as being a very poor conductor. If you find you are getting residue, your cloth prolly needs to be cleaned or still contains soap from washing.

:-)

have fun

(works on bug screen tv's as well)

Good old spit shine

SPIT SHINE!!!

(not relly)

Apple recommendes iKlear. The spray bottle comes with a static-free cloth (or two, depending on what you purchase). Sold at the Apple Store. iKlear has a web site.

I hear that the Mr. Clean magic eraser works well. I don't have a macbook, but I used an eraser on my optical mouse (one with my greasy paw print caked on ) and it got it nice and clean again.

I think the magic eraser idea was posted over at arstechnica.

Interesting ,

Will try all these on my macbook , its 7 months old and it looks like its a ZX81 ( BLACK ) , will do this .. saves me sending the bloody thing back to Apple .... any idea what products in the UK work ?..Aprt from hydrocloric acid

I use Various UK Brands of Baby Wipes (non soapy ones), if its good for my MacBook Pro must be good for a Baby’s Bottom. Hehe, Serious, Even use them on my Glossy Screen along with some micro fibre Glass Cloths without any ill effects.

hmm , i will go to Asda later and try and get some strong glass wipes as this white macbok truely looks discusting because of the defects apple SHOULD have fixed b4 release.....

Ello All ,

Just tried Asda's Glass Wipes on it .. helped abit ... not much thow ....i'll get some rubbing alchaol off a friend or terps rofl...

Emma x

Concerning the bezel (the part around my keybord and tackpad) i use water on cloth used for glasses, but this is not very successfull

And for the trackpad and his boutton i have no idear what to use.

I definitively need it, thanks!

Well I usually use a really soft towel to rub off the screen and computer. Then there was that time I spilled cereal on the keyboard...I slowly turned it upside down and i think it all came out. Haven't had any problems since then with the keyboard. Usually when there's a smudge on the computer I rub it off with my hand, but yeah I should get those wipes. Damn, why didn't I just spend the extra $200 or so to get black.

ethnal (basically rubbing alcohol) and one time i had to clean the keys and track pad so i used clearisil (or what ever) face wash pad disposable cloth and wiped my keys, got em pretty clean.

WD-40 shifts tough cr*p from most computer plastic without damage, Windex (or your preferred isopropyl alcohol-based glass cleaner) removes any greasy residue, and "Harley Gloss", a spray-on polymer finish intended for motorcycles, keeps it all nice and shiny. For the screen I use Windex followed by distilled water, always works. Harley Gloss is great for guitars and lots of other things too.

BTW, much talk of lint-free cloths in this thread and in various product direction leaflets. How do you know if a cloth is lint-free? You can't go into a shop and buy 'lint-free cloth'! Joking...

As anyone tried using bleach? Not sure if it would mess up the finish, but I use a spray bleach all the time on our white counter tops and it does not seem to damage or hurt it. Just a thought

Yeah I should clean my keys better. Especially my R and E keys, which are always dirty. I usually use a special cleaner for them...my saliva (lol I just lick my finger and wipe them off).

Ah, screw all that cancer-causing chemo stuff. 85% of

cleaning something is about mechanical action.

I am using water, spittle and a microfiber cloth.

As anyone tried using bleach? Not sure if it would mess up the finish, but I use a spray bleach all the time on our white counter tops and it does not seem to damage or hurt it. Just a thought

bad idea, rofl

A bit off topic, but whats good to clean off the iMac plastic?