So you’re the proud owner of a brand new, clean and trendy MacBook (White). Not for Long.
Unless, your body is permanently coated with a thin film of plastic or other petrochemical derivative, your beautiful new mistress will become soiled with greasy marks after a few weeks of useage. These inevitable greasy marks are somehow overlooked in apple’s informative propoganda http://www.apple.com/getamac/ads/ (though the grease problem is not restricted just to apple hardware).
I found the cleaning guidlines on the apple web site didn’t quite cut the mustard and in particular the dark patches where my palms rest on the mac book simply would not budge. So instead I decided to go a step further a purchase a cleaning product.
The cleaning guidelines are warn against abrasive products, solvents and sprays. I decided to try a ‘bath cleaning’ product (おふろのルック in japan and in the pic), my reasoning was baths are usually plastic and subject to grease residue. And to my joy and despite apples warning a quick spray and wipe with this product has restored my mac book to it’s angelic white glory.
Warning: use my recommendation at your own risk, be careful with what you spray on your computer and definitely shut it down first!.
May 14th, 2007 at 8:19 am
Good idea Chris.
I’ll try using some bathroom cleaner called “Mr muscle”.
CHRIS!!!!!!! Look what happened, you ********!
http://www.boz.co.uk/images/greasy-macbook.jpg
May 14th, 2007 at 8:21 am
Yes, most disturbing it seems to have cloned itself into an imb tnink pad (as seen in the background)
May 14th, 2007 at 11:12 am
I normally use the macbook when my thinkpad is thinking.
May 23rd, 2007 at 3:06 pm
how’s your business going chris?
your experiment inspired me too. i’ll try to clean up my mac with that liquid.
please gurantee me your mac book as a substitute if there’s something wrong happened after i tried that cleaning up method…
February 10th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
I found that a pencil eraser worked quite well!