Cleaning my MacBook Pro

Water alone doesn't cut the human skin oils and other greasy residue.

Water is bad for the fact that it takes a long time to evaporate and can get inside the machine.

On the screen only I use iKlear

https://www.klearscreen.com/

For the case and body I use a organic orange solvent like orange based adhesive floor remover

http://www.citrusdepot.net/shop/tile-mastic-and-carpet-adhesive-remover/

This is especially good at removing all those annoying stickers that come on Windows PC's, grease and grime etc. and it leaves the machine smelling orangy clean and oh so shiny new looking.

Dry polish with a clean soft dry cloth afterwards or it might be a bit too slippery.

Use a wooden toothpick and ear swab sticks to clean the tight spots and between the keys.

Windex contains ammonia and you shouldn't use it to clean your screen. I agree with ds store - I use nothing but iKlear on all parts of my Apple products (although I'm going to take a look at his 'orange' suggestion).

Clinton

Are the MacBook Pros screen really that sensitive towards ammonia?

Yep. Most screens these days don't like take to ammonia well at all - even TV screens. You may not have actually damaged the screen yet, but I'm thinking that you will if you continue to use ammonia-based products.

Clinton

Which Windex? Windex has a product with the label ELECTRONICS on it which I use for the display. I spray it on a microfiber cloth and wipe the display holding the back. Then I take a large microfiber cloth and wipe the fine liquid particles off. The result is a perfectly clean display. This is NOT the ordinary household window cleaner Windex.

For the case and other parts I use a clean cloth dampened with ordinary household cleaner.

Ciao.

mbutt0n wrote:

Like I said above your posts, it's called "Glass Plus." It says you're allowed to use it on electronics, and it doesn't have any ammonia contained inside of it.

- Mark

Time will tell if the manufacturers claims are true, just wait and see.

Eye glass cleaner works great too!!!

Does it say in lower case 'electronics' on it? Is there an image of a flat screen display (or TV) on the bottom of the container? Does it say that it is a 'NO RESIDUE' product?

I suspect we may be talking about two different items.

Ciao.

The product I am refering to does not have 'glass plus' written on it and comes in a container of 9.7 oz.

Message was edited by: OGELTHORPE

That is NOT what I am using. I did a search and probably should have done this the first time; 🙂

http://www.cleanitsupply.com/p-22316-windex-electronics-cleaner-97-oz-aerosol-ca n-dracb702288.aspx?utm_source=Nextag&utm_medium=cse&utm_term=DRACB702288

Ciao.