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A few blasts of compressed air very likely will fix the keyboard. We have cans of it spread throughout the office, because it took Apple three laptop generation
by nikanj 7y ago
A few blasts of compressed air very likely will fix the keyboard. We have cans of it spread throughout the office, because it took Apple three laptop generations to admit to their faults
- saagarjha 7y ago> We have cans of it spread throughout the office So does Apple, funnily enough.
- dasKrokodil 7y agoMaybe they should include one with every butterfly keyboard purchase.
- Symbiote 7y agoPlease avoid calling the "gas duster" type cans "compressed air". It's misleading. They usually contain compressed fluorocarbons like difluoroethane. These are toxic chemicals, which are also potent greenhouse gases. Their casual use for cleaning should be discouraged.
- majewsky 7y agoWhat's a good replacement for a casual user who wants to clean their electronics? (Honest question.)
- polydut 7y agoI don't know how well they perform, but I remember hearing about these https://www.canlessair.com/ https://www.canlessair.com/
- Yajirobe 7y ago100 bucks??
- cooljacob204 7y agoI mean you are also free to pay hundreds over the years in air cans, wasting money and harming the environment.
- Yajirobe 7y agoUnless you are really using canned air daily, you will not have to spend 100$ for it over your whole life.
- geerlingguy 7y agoI bought a three pack about 5 years ago and am only on the 2nd can. They're great for a very occasional spritz into a fan or some other dusty region when you have a laptop or desktop open for a repair. Otherwise I'll use a vacuum or duster, if it's not delicate electronics.
- tekknik 7y agoyou can find equivalents on amazon for $20-30. imo for $110 this thing better create a hurricane when turned on
- kemotep 7y agoI have had great success cleaning using a electronics vacuum. It is a type of vacuum that blows instead of sucks and uses non-conductive materials to avoid static discharge. I got one for around 60 USD and unless the motor breaks it should last forever. There are also screen and electronic safe wet wipes for cleaning phones and other messes that a vacuum would not solve.
- kkarakk 7y agoThere is quite literally no option out there that makes sense economically or logically - The impact to the environment is negligible. You aren't the one shifting the earth's atmosphere, it's greenhouse gases from the millions of cars,from industry and deforestation. Everyone could start smoking cigarettes and spraying aerosol into their laptop once a day and you wouldn't make a dent in the ozone comparatively
- perrylaj 7y agoUh, that's not true at all. CFC's that most people are concerned with emitting aren't necessarily greenhouse gases, and the greenhouse contribution is not really a primary concern with them. The primary concern is that many of them are catalysts with very very long active lifespans. As a catalyst (not a consumable reactant), a single CFC molecule is capable of destroying hundreds of thousands of ozone molecules in the upper atmosphere (or more). It's the catalytic nature that makes these things problematic and accumulative even in small amounts. The accumulation of these long-lived gasses would be measurable if everyone were blasting their laptop once a day, which is precisely why a number of them are banned completely. The ones generally used now are relatively better, but there is still plenty of reason to avoid emitting them if possible. Cigarette smoke isn't comparable when it comes to environmental concern, nor are most common combustion byproducts. Those definitely cause concern for different reasons, but aren't directly comparable to environmental concerns raised by CFCs.
- bluedino 7y agoThose don't fix weakened butterfly assemblies