Cleaning the laptop keyboard

The keyboard design for most laptops is just hopeless. Under the keys are multiple ecosystems hosting bacteria that are rapidly evolving to eat your fingers.

Today morning I used a USB powered cleaner to clean the keyboard of my work laptop (I got the cleaner as a gift from the sibling after she saw the keyboard on a bright day). The cleaner worked much more efficiently than I imagined. I say this because as I muzzled in the cleaning airbrush under the keys, I saw what looked like dog hair in compromising positions hastily get out and run. Before you start imagining things, I want to declare that the laptop in question is a used laptop and I don't know the previous owner. Looking at all the hair I am beginning to think the previous owner was a highly evolved German Shepard with a wicked sense of humor or a Grizzly that was under a lot of stress.

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"ecosystem" is right. I see this all the time in computer support. Why aren't laptops constructed with a keyboard like this one? It is a sealed piece of silicone rubber. It could snap out of a recessed spot in the laptop frame, and you could run it through the dishwasher if you wanted to.

Some people's offices I'd like to put a keyboard like that in, too. They use it as a never-cleaned, never-replaced placemat.

What usb cleaner did you use, that worked so well?

By Jeffrey Boser` (not verified) on 26 Jul 2007 #permalink