When was the last time you cleaned the dust out of your laptop/pc?

[Amelith Nargothrond]

Not sure if this is the right place to ask this (if not, please move it where it belongs; thanks).

Do you clean/dust your electronics, specially the dust suckers like laptops and PCs? If yes, how often and what do you use?

I'm not selling anything obviously, i clean my stuff every 6 months (good enough for me) with this:
MetroVac Europe DataVac® ESD Safe Electric Duster® ED-500ESD

Awesome little dusting gadget.

 

[brod56]

Very rarely, Im quite lazy

 

[Marko :)]

PCs when temperatures are really high, laptops never.

 

[Deletedmessiah]

You should add another option of once in 2-3 years. I clean when there's too much dust in the fan and its not working properly.

 

[Amelith Nargothrond]

You should add another option of once in 2-3 years. I clean when there's too much dust in the fan and its not working properly.

It looks like i can't edit the pool...

 

[Ink]

Dust will accumulate on anything left out in the room, which includes furniture and flooring.

Regularly clean laptop to keep it clear from dust, and stored in an enclosed space when not in use.

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[Deleted Member 3a5v73x]

My father takes laptop to gas station and cleans it with the vacuum cleaner, air sucking is so strong, that it could even damage laptop parts inside, he never listens to me though..

 

[Amelith Nargothrond]

Dust will accumulate on anything left out in the room, which includes furniture and flooring.

Regularly clean laptop to keep it clear from dust, and stored in an enclosed space when not in use.

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Thank you @Spawn !

 

[kev216]

Once in the month or after a few weeks, I clean my laptop.
I use a vacuum cleaner and a compressor for the keyboard to do the job.

 

[Ink]

My father takes laptop to gas station and cleans it with the vacuum cleaner, air sucking is so strong, that it could even damage laptop parts inside, he never listens to me though..

Risky, but when you don't have access to the hardware internals, it's your only option. I have done this before for Console systems.

 

[Amelith Nargothrond]

One piece of very important advice: when using compressed air to blow the dust out of your electronics, always block the fans with something, prevent them to move, otherwise you can risk to unbalance the fan or even break it. With this in mind, you'll be (most of the times) safe.

The other thing to watch out for is the condense. Blowers will chill the air which produces humidity. Never dust your electronics attached to a PSU or battery. Most of the canned air tubes have this effect, so watch out, test it first on glass.

 

[In2an3_PpG]

Once every month or 6 months for me.

 

[Weebarra]

Whoops, NEVER !! unless you count cleaning the crumbs off of the keyboard, lol.

 

[johnyjohn]

Once every month it gets very dusty with the tower on the floor

 

[Amelith Nargothrond]

Whoops, NEVER !! unless you count cleaning the crumbs off of the keyboard, lol.

How 'bout the coffee?
You must be having a military grade laptop

 

[_CyberGhosT_]

My father takes laptop to gas station and cleans it with the vacuum cleaner, air sucking is so strong, that it could even damage laptop parts inside, he never listens to me though..

rofl I have done this with this big azz Cooler Master HAF case, I lugged it to the car and took it to the car wash and
vacuumed it out
+1 for Dad's

 

[SHvFl]

I also vaccum it. The stronger the vacuum the better. You just need to stop the fan with something so it doesn't spin too fast and break and you have nothing to worry.

 

[ForgottenSeer 55474]

Daily or weekly, very often anyway

 

[Marko :)]

Dust will accumulate on anything left out in the room, which includes furniture and flooring.

Regularly clean laptop to keep it clear from dust, and stored in an enclosed space when not in use.

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Well, I have cooling pad for laptop and when I see dust on it and on bottom of laptop, I clean it. However, I have never opened laptop and I rather leave that to professionals. I do open and clean desktop PCs because they are easier to maintain than laptops.

 

[Amelith Nargothrond]

Well, I have cooling pad for laptop and when I see dust on it and on bottom of laptop, I clean it. However, I have never opened laptop and I rather leave that to professionals. I do open and clean desktop PCs because they are easier to maintain than laptops.

I found that a certain combination of cooling pads / laptop fans spinning in a certain direction can have catastrophic effects.
I'm talking about those pads that blow the air towards the laptop and the laptop has fans on the bottom that takes air inside the laptop. This combination accumulates more dust than just the laptop without the pad. So instead of helping, the cooling pad will fill the inside of the laptop with more dust in a much shorter time.