What do you guys recommend for maintaining the screen on the iMac 20" G5? Price aside. Thanks in advance.
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Best LCD cleaner?
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tech4all said:
yikes, brave. I never touch my LCDs with paper towels because of the scratching factor. The closest I come is Kimwipes for delicate glassware, but usually I either use these special poly cloths we use in our lab for our optics equipment, or just a really soft plain cotton cloth.
By the way, to the original poster, didn't your iMac come with a nice soft cloth for that purpose? My 20" cinema display came with one.
Radtech
Screensavrs...an azming expensive piece of cloth. I use it for camera lens, lcd, helll just about everything..Works great. A singe swipe on the gl2 lcd screen brightened it by like 8 times...SO hella cool
Screensavrs...an azming expensive piece of cloth. I use it for camera lens, lcd, helll just about everything..Works great. A singe swipe on the gl2 lcd screen brightened it by like 8 times...SO hella cool
tech4all
macrumors 68040
apple_iBoy said:
As far as I could tell, it left no scratches on the LCD. But I should point out that this wasn't on my Apple displays but rather my Windows laptop that was very dirty. Nonetheless, no scratches that I could see. Course not sure if I would do that on a $1,000 LCD though 😉 Probably iKlear or something similar is your best bet.
Dr. Dastardly
macrumors 65816
This is what I found to be the best way, just a damp white T-shirt will do the trick fine. No need for any special wipes or sprays, I have used them all and they work just as well as a T-shirt and water so why not go with the free version.Raven VII said:
puckhead193
macrumors G3
Sutekidane
macrumors 6502a
Go for a ScreenSavrz, they're amazing. I got one for my 15" albook, and it's great for cleaning everything. The good thing is you can easily buff smudges and dust out without the use of luquid. This is really good because you can avoid leaving streaks left behind by water. I used iKlear once, but I may have gotten a defective one because it left all these streaks and spots on my lcd. The ScreenSavrz fixed it though. 🙂
anything that won't scratch it. Then again I've had a CRT for near on 8 years and have never dusted it.Apple!Freak said:
Jordan
YS2003
macrumors 68020
I think Apple recommends the slightly moisten soft towel for cleaning the LCD screen. Apple web site did mention iKlear as the product they are comfortable but stopped short of endorsing it. LCD screen is very delicate (look at how thin that is) and I only use oen of those computer screen cleaning towel you can buy at Staples, CompUSA, and etc. I just slightly moisten it before cleaning the screen. I am doing this for all of my laptops and their screens are smudge-free to date.
Artful Dodger
macrumors 68020
Hi, I use iClean on my iBook since the local Apple store uses it on all the displays, pbs, ibooks and so on.
Palomino said:
this sort of makes me want to never ever come to your place.
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my crt (my tv!) gets dusty all the time, mainly because of static - something that happens when you shoot electrons at a glass surface...
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so I, too, do clean every once in a while. It helps. I use iklear.
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wdlove
macrumors P6
Best thing I ever used... a hose!
High pressure hose if you want to get ALL the dust off. Blast away... 😛
Note: If cleaning an iMac G5, you may want to mount it with the wall mounting bracket before turning the blast on full power.
Sorry. 😉 I'm obviously not serious. After 20 posts about iKlear, I had to throw some humor into the mix.
High pressure hose if you want to get ALL the dust off. Blast away... 😛
Note: If cleaning an iMac G5, you may want to mount it with the wall mounting bracket before turning the blast on full power.
Sorry. 😉 I'm obviously not serious. After 20 posts about iKlear, I had to throw some humor into the mix.
Xapplimatic
macrumors 6502
The best is far better than the rest.
I would recommend only Kleenmaster Brillianize. It's an anti-static cleaner and polish for plastics and any shining surfaces. It's made by the Tubro Company, Inc of Ivyland, PA. And they also sell very nice lint-free clothes to go with it. The polish it puts on a screen makes it feel smoother than ice!.. so smooth in fact, dust takes weeks to accumulate instead of days.
(www.tubro.com is their website). I've used Brillinize for years on everything from CRTs to LCDs.
I would recommend only Kleenmaster Brillianize. It's an anti-static cleaner and polish for plastics and any shining surfaces. It's made by the Tubro Company, Inc of Ivyland, PA. And they also sell very nice lint-free clothes to go with it. The polish it puts on a screen makes it feel smoother than ice!.. so smooth in fact, dust takes weeks to accumulate instead of days.
(www.tubro.com is their website). I've used Brillinize for years on everything from CRTs to LCDs.
