Just picked mine up and tried it out. Definitely feels more premium than a typical cleaning cloth, but $19 is still wild haha.
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Apple's Polishing Cloth and AirPods 3 Now Available for Same-Day Pickup at Select Apple Stores
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Sure it’s expensive, but think of the money you’ll save in water!
I remember seeing a small bag if 'freeze dried water' (the bag was empty). The instructions said ' Just add water!'. I laughed so hard. That is a genius item to sell all over the place. People *will* buy that. Really...
I was tempted...
Is this cloth made from the same cotton fields in China picked from slaved force labor as Nike's new NBA shoes?
Under Angela, that'd be a full line of bath-towels, wash-cloths and toilet-covers.
Ah man, against my better judgement I went to watch her 14 / 16 MBP clip yesterday, I lasted about 30 seconds.
I hope you aren't one of those people that uses windex on your tv's and screens
never owned a cloth Before This is nice,it works lol. weird how you can’t pick up in store anymore.
Were they recalled? Is Apple embarrassed for making/marketing them? Hmm...
Could they ALL be sold out?
Nope. like I said, damp corner of a cloth to wipe away dust and smudges, rest of the cloth to dry and remove streaks. Unless you’re wiping chicken wings across your displays, water will do the job just fine.
Yup. I got a 40 pack for like 10 bucks And I’d be shocked if anyone could look at something cleaned with those vs something cleaned with Apple’s cloth and tell the difference.
With availability far away on the online store, best to check whether it is available at the local Apple store.
You just have to laugh at this. Customers are not able to get their hands on the new macbooks due to delivery issues or delays but yet no such problems exist with the latest and greatest Apple branded polishing cloth. Just goes to show what is more important
But be careful. I bought some 'lint free micro fiber towels' from Home Depot, and they were everything but lint free. My glasses looked like a chinchilla was mating on the things, and those little fibers were hard to get off. They had a static charge like you wouldn't believe. They were 'clean', but having to remove the fibers was a pain. And they were 'lint free'? Nope, not even close. They were pretty cheap, and in multiple colors in the pack, but...
Mine was the cheapest pack I could find at Walmart. I haven’t noticed any lint issues. I use them for my electronics, I use some to clean and polish my car, I even have one in the kitchen for cleaning some of my nicer whiskey glasses. Although, maybe I just got lucky or something.
Well, good for Walmart. I'd rather crawl through broken glass than go to Walmart. The lint from the towels I bought was disappointing. I was, silly me I know, not expecting those myriad fibers. They were really surprisingly dense, and resistant to me trying to blow them off. The idea that one could 'miss' those is small, unless they never looked at the residue.
Yep, iJustine has given it a thorough review all right. With 146K + views so far . . .
And ifixit has given the polishing cloth a full teardown. Unfortunately it received a 0 out of 10 on their repairability scale (after they cut it into pieces with scissors). See link below:
2021 MacBook Pro Teardown: A Glimpse at a Better Timeline
We’re done with the new-but-also-classic 2021 MacBook Pro teardown, both 14 and 16-inch versions, and they’re full of happy surprises. Dig in with us.
www.ifixit.com