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Anyone here use saliva to clean their ibook/pb?
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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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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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mad jew 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 🙂
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. 😛
Its great, I can't believe more laptop users don't have them.
iklear, like most single use products, is a ripoff. 😛
UTB_Avid said:
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$
devilot
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I suspect that using saliva could...
further enhance your chances of happening to you and your machine. 😛
further enhance your chances of happening to you and your machine. 😛
Err said:
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. 😛
California
macrumors 68040
Err said:
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.
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.
mad jew
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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. 😛
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. 🙁
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. 🙁
Lord Blackadder
macrumors P6
California said:
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. 😀
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.
MUCKYFINGERS
macrumors 6502a
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 😉
neocell
macrumors 65816
Whoa, hey Whoasjjordan said:
Give Lacero a break. His post
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") 😀 😛 😀Lacero said: