Originally posted by: mugs
I just use a damp (with water) paper towel
Really bad advice. Most glass cleaners use either ammonia or alcohol, both of which are solvents. Apple specifically warns against using solvents as screen cleaners. If you aren't getting results you like with a damp microfiber cloth, pick up a cleaner such as iKlear.Originally posted by: TheStu
It is a piece of glass, use glass cleaner.
Originally posted by: loomfarkle
Really bad advice. Most glass cleaners use either ammonia or alcohol, both of which are solvents. Apple specifically warns against using solvents as screen cleaners. If you aren't getting results you like with a damp microfiber cloth, pick up a cleaner such as iKlear.Originally posted by: TheStu
It is a piece of glass, use glass cleaner.
Originally posted by: TheStu
Originally posted by: loomfarkle
Really bad advice. Most glass cleaners use either ammonia or alcohol, both of which are solvents. Apple specifically warns against using solvents as screen cleaners. If you aren't getting results you like with a damp microfiber cloth, pick up a cleaner such as iKlear.Originally posted by: TheStu
It is a piece of glass, use glass cleaner.
All I know is, they are using glass to cover the screens on the Unibody MacBook Pros, to clean glass, one uses glass cleaner. It is glass, you aren't going to doing anything to it with paper towels and some glass cleaner.
Originally posted by: TheStu
Glass is a 7 on the Moh's scale of hardness. As someone who has been dealing with glass and glass products since, well, as long as I have been alive, and have been using who knows what to clean the glasses I wear on my head(?) and I remember reading that the iPhone has optical quality glass on it, I would not be surprised if the MacBook Pro was the same, and have never had a problem. I have never observed or heard of paper products scratching glass.
After hearing you mention it, I did find someone else, on another forum that also mentioned it, but again he seemed to be the only one that had heard of it. Tyranicus has one of the new Unibody MBPs, uses cheap paper towels and has no problems at all. Furthermore, if it is the same glass as the iPhone then it is of very high quality and withstands scratches fantastically.
What I shouldn't advise others to do is juggle chainsaws, or sumo wrestle with toddlers, or bathe in chicken noodle soup. Using glass cleaner and paper towels to clean glass, you know the same way that 99% of people do it, doesn't even come close to something that i shouldn't advise.
Originally posted by: fatpat268
Originally posted by: TheStu
Glass is a 7 on the Moh's scale of hardness. As someone who has been dealing with glass and glass products since, well, as long as I have been alive, and have been using who knows what to clean the glasses I wear on my head(?) and I remember reading that the iPhone has optical quality glass on it, I would not be surprised if the MacBook Pro was the same, and have never had a problem. I have never observed or heard of paper products scratching glass.
After hearing you mention it, I did find someone else, on another forum that also mentioned it, but again he seemed to be the only one that had heard of it. Tyranicus has one of the new Unibody MBPs, uses cheap paper towels and has no problems at all. Furthermore, if it is the same glass as the iPhone then it is of very high quality and withstands scratches fantastically.
What I shouldn't advise others to do is juggle chainsaws, or sumo wrestle with toddlers, or bathe in chicken noodle soup. Using glass cleaner and paper towels to clean glass, you know the same way that 99% of people do it, doesn't even come close to something that i shouldn't advise.
Except that the MBP's screen really isn't glass, at least not the same type of glass that you see in windows. The glass you're thinking of is silica glass. The glass on a MBP is actually acrylic glass.
Originally posted by: TheStu
Glass is a 7 on the Moh's scale of hardness. As someone who has been dealing with glass and glass products since, well, as long as I have been alive, and have been using who knows what to clean the glasses I wear on my head(?) and I remember reading that the iPhone has optical quality glass on it, I would not be surprised if the MacBook Pro was the same, and have never had a problem. I have never observed or heard of paper products scratching glass.
After hearing you mention it, I did find someone else, on another forum that also mentioned it, but again he seemed to be the only one that had heard of it. Tyranicus has one of the new Unibody MBPs, uses cheap paper towels and has no problems at all. Furthermore, if it is the same glass as the iPhone then it is of very high quality and withstands scratches fantastically.
What I shouldn't advise others to do is juggle chainsaws, or sumo wrestle with toddlers, or bathe in chicken noodle soup. Using glass cleaner and paper towels to clean glass, you know the same way that 99% of people do it, doesn't even come close to something that i shouldn't advise.
Originally posted by: loomfarkle
Originally posted by: TheStu
Glass is a 7 on the Moh's scale of hardness. As someone who has been dealing with glass and glass products since, well, as long as I have been alive, and have been using who knows what to clean the glasses I wear on my head(?) and I remember reading that the iPhone has optical quality glass on it, I would not be surprised if the MacBook Pro was the same, and have never had a problem. I have never observed or heard of paper products scratching glass.
After hearing you mention it, I did find someone else, on another forum that also mentioned it, but again he seemed to be the only one that had heard of it. Tyranicus has one of the new Unibody MBPs, uses cheap paper towels and has no problems at all. Furthermore, if it is the same glass as the iPhone then it is of very high quality and withstands scratches fantastically.
What I shouldn't advise others to do is juggle chainsaws, or sumo wrestle with toddlers, or bathe in chicken noodle soup. Using glass cleaner and paper towels to clean glass, you know the same way that 99% of people do it, doesn't even come close to something that i shouldn't advise.
Hardness and scratch resistance have nothing to do with the glass cleaner. Let me repeat: most glass cleaners contain alcohol or ammonia. Alcohol and ammonia are solvents. Apple specifically warns against using solvents on the MBP screen. While I acknowledge the years of experience you've gained by cleaning your glasses, I think I'll stick with the chemists and engineers at Apple for my information.
Originally posted by: MrX8503
I also read that a 50/50 solution of water/alcohol works too.
Originally posted by: sjwaste
I take it into the Apple Store weekly for a screen cleaning. They use a microfiber cloth and some solution. It's not bad, it's about $10 for the service.
But seriously. I use Windex. And a paper towel. It works GREAT.
Originally posted by: TheStu
What I shouldn't advise others to do is juggle chainsaws, or sumo wrestle with toddlers, or bathe in chicken noodle soup.
Originally posted by: alevasseur14
Originally posted by: MrX8503
I also read that a 50/50 solution of water/alcohol works too.
Finally! A use for that liter of Everclear I stupidly bought years ago!