[MoBius]

I just got a new ibook and was wondering what is best to clean the screen and also the surface of the laptop to keep it nice and pretty

[Carl Norum]

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">Originally posted by MoBius:
<strong>I just got a new ibook and was wondering what is best to clean the screen and also the surface of the laptop to keep it nice and pretty </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="1" face="Geneva, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif">I use a soft wet cloth to clean my iBook screen. It came from shopper's optical or something like that. The outside is easy to clean with turtle wax.

[Justin W. Williams]

Never heard of using Turtle wax...interesting.

I personally just use a soft cloth and it makes the screen usable. I am not as anal about fingerprints though. As long as I can read text, everything is a-ok.

[Scooterboy]

For the screen, use only clean, filtered water to moisten a microfibre cloth, like what a photographer uses to clean a lens. You can use a lens cleaning brush to brush away loose dirt and dust before cleaning. The moistened cloth works great on the case as well.

[MoBius]

No offense but are you just paranoid with water or is it better using the filtered? Just wondering.

[MoBius]

No offense but are you just paranoid with water or is it better using the filtered? Just wondering.

[Phoible]

Don't use anything with alcohol in it, because it will yellow and damage your screen. There are special cleaners made for LCDs that work pretty well. I personally use a cleaner made for treated camera lenses. It does a really good job, and cleans off the marks that are made when the keyboard hits the screen.

[PHoynak]

I use Kensington Screen Guardian and Surface Guardian cloths. I used them only once but they seem to work.

[pilauh]

water...

[splode]

Hey.

I suspect the "Turtle Wax" tip would work for scratches on the outer shell. Not that I've done it, but it was well known at a record store that I used to work at that the expensive CD Scratch-Repair kits were effectively Turtle Wax. It fills in the scratches so they are invisible.

splode

[Carl Norum]

Yup, that is indeed the point. Most of the scratches I've seen on iBooks haven't been that noticeable anyway.

[Geoff Crane]

I use iKlear - I saw them using it at the Apple Store at Cupertino, and figured that was good enough for me.

It works great, is expensive and isn't available in Australia...

You guys can get it from the applestore online.

iKlear is a two stage cleaner - a wet, non-alchol wipe & a dry follow up.

Happy cleaning.

Geoff

PS It 's cleaned the screens as well as the cases on my iBook, iMac & TiBook

[meducus]

I've watched the guy at my local Apple store use Windex on their laptops (and mine once when i had it in there)..............surley there is a protective screen infront of the LCD, which would mean it doesn't matter??

[ringo]

Be careful if you use Turtle Wax, I've heard horror stories about slippery iBooks crashing to the floor aftr being cleaned.

I use a LCD-safe cleaner and a smooth cloth for the screen...spray-air-in-a-can and a damp paper towel for the case and keyboard.

Don't get too freaked out about scratches...the white iBooks scratch really easily...hard to avoid it. Mine is scratched up from travel and working in hostile environments...not worth getting upset about.