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ewwwww

people just spend the 10$ on a pack of iKlear for your LCD and palm rest, windex has amonia in it so stop using it, and saliva... do you let others use your computer after a saliva bath? sounds like a case of "i got herpies from a mac" waiting to happen... lol
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Perhaps if you lick the PowerBook for long enough it'll start to taste sweet :p
 
mad jew said:
What's wrong with a bit of ammonia? It hasn't visibly damaged any of my LCDs.

Of, course, the herpies is taking a toll on my eyesight though. :(

I rem reading a story about ammonia distroying the anti-glare coating of CRT's, not sure whats used on LCD's but why even play with fire when theres a 10$ product made to clean LCD's? Hell, a bottle of windex must cost a 3-4 bucks right? I just think its cheap easy insurance to protecting your display for years to come :)
 
No, I definitely don't use any saliva on the PowerBook or iBook. Just use iKlear.
 
UTB_Avid said:
I use this - http://www.radtech.us/Products/NotebookScreensavrz.aspx#
Its great, I can't believe more laptop users don't have them.

iklear, like most single use products, is a ripoff. :p

is it just dry? does it have a solution of any kind it coes with?

I dont really consider iKlear a ripoff, i think you get 12 cleaning wipes for 10$ if you use 1 a month you get a year for 10$

they do make a wipe that comes with a bottle of solution like what you linked, but its like 20$
 
California said:
Celery based powerbooks? Mad Jew, that could be a new great idea. Translucent, too!

<looks at eMate 300>

Nope, a green translucent body has already been done.
Thank you. Next!
 
mad jew said:
Alternatives? Non-body-secreted fluids such as Windex? :p
I'm glad you said non-body fluids, instead of body fluids other that saliva.
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The thought of smearing DNA protein over my PB disgusts me. The idea of wasting money buying a name brand cleaning solution also disgusts me. I prefer just to use a cloth damped in a mild soap solution in tepid water.
 
mad jew said:
What's wrong with a bit of ammonia? It hasn't visibly damaged any of my LCDs.

Of, course, the herpies is taking a toll on my eyesight though. :(
Well apparently its close friend urea kills off the house-hold plants

I like how everything's coming full circle here
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Use a water wetted but rung chamois leather - the same thing you dry your car off with. It'll clean your powerbook screen, case and keyboard a treat and shouldn't have any digestive enzymes on it and doesn't cost $10!
 
neocell said:
Well apparently its close friend urea kills off the house-hold plants

I like how everything's coming full circle here
:D
Well at some point somebody is going to suggest getting the dog to clean the machine.
 
Err said:
is it just dry? does it have a solution of any kind it coes with?

They recommend just using water with it. So no solution. I usually just dampen a corner, wipe down my screen and then use the dry part to dry my screen. The cloth drys really quickly as well. It works really well, and I use it constantly for dusting my screen.

I swear I don't work for radtech. :p
 
Err said:
I rem reading a story about ammonia distroying the anti-glare coating of CRT's, not sure whats used on LCD's but why even play with fire when theres a 10$ product made to clean LCD's? Hell, a bottle of windex must cost a 3-4 bucks right? I just think its cheap easy insurance to protecting your display for years to come :)

On another part of this sight -- I think Apple Collectors -- they were complaining because their old classic Macs were turning yellow after ten years. Someone realized that the problem was that Windex was chemically altering the old grey Apple plastics. I'm not putting Windex anywhere near my computers. Honestly, I got my old Tibook screens clean as a whistle with water and light elbow grease. Oh, and I have been using one of those chamois soft "scunci polishing cloths, with no chemical additives. I think it is a fine microfiber material.

And if I was REALLY picky, I'd be using Distilled water rather than tap. (I once heard that Tom Cruise will only have his fleet of cars washed in distilled water. What a hero he is.)
 
Let me start off by saying this post is awesome! However, the responses that try to explain biology and the components of saliva are phenomenonally absurd. Let's sum it all up:

There's nothing wrong with spitting on your computer. Your saliva is made up of salt components (potassium, Sodium, Chloride, bicarbonate) and a few enzymes, such as amylase, lipase etc. THEY WON'T AFFECT YOUR COMPUTER.

Pennies don't get dissolved by enzymes. They get eaten by the acid produced in your stomach.

There's NO SUCH THING as DNA protein. There is DNA ( a nucleic acid) and proteins. They're completely different.
 
Unfortunately, I'm yet to see a bottle/can/tub/canister/tube/bag/sachet/skull of iKlear down here in Australia. It's not all that easy to get hold of and I haven't had any problems with ammonia or more specifically, Windex. :p


Sun Baked, can you clean up post #36 please, one of the smileys has been sick. I hope you haven't been feeding it iKlear, or even worse, urea. :(
 
California said:
Reminds me of my dad, who pee'd into house plants when my mom wasn't looking.

Speaking of urine, stale urine has the same active ingredient as windex (ammonia), so if your screen is dirty and you're in a pinch...

Just thought I'd share. :D

Personally I clean my CRTs with alcohol or windex, but LCDs get LCD screen cleaner I stole from work; can't remember the brand but it isn't ammonia-based.
 
For the case, I use windex and a paper towel. For the keyboard, I use a Q-tip and windex. Then I also use this special LCD cleaner spray and I use a cloth to wipe the dry off the screen after spraying. Then I also use compressed air to get all the dust and stuff off the keyboard/screen. (I work in a campus computer lab so that's why I have access to all this stuff ;)
 
sjjordan said:
There's NO SUCH THING as DNA protein. There is DNA ( a nucleic acid) and proteins. They're completely different.
Whoa, hey Whoa

Give Lacero a break. His post
Lacero said:
The thought of smearing DNA protein over my PB disgusts me
could be he simply left out "and" or maybe he was specifically referring to histones or nucleosomes? I would bet many would consider transcription factors to be DNA proteins as well since that is where they take action (with DNA, so therefore they are DNA proteins, he never said "proteins made of DNA") :D :p :D
 
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