<story><title>Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use</title><url>https://quanticdev.com/articles/cleaning-macbook-after-16800-hours-of-use</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>isoskeles</author><text>I also find these very useful, but I have some that wore down and start stripping the screws.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d like to find a set that isn&amp;#x27;t prone to wear, unless that is simply a fact of life. I&amp;#x27;m wondering if I was just being too cheap when I bought my first set.</text></item><item><author>neilv</author><text>BTW, one of the most useful tools I&amp;#x27;ve found for working on arbitrary modern electronics (after a basic set of ordinary screwdrivers and jewelers&amp;#x27; drivers, a needlenose pliers, and some kind of spudger) is a $10-$20 set of as many different security screw bits as you can get.  IME, it pays for itself the first time you need one of the bits, and I wish I&amp;#x27;d bought a bigger set the first time.</text></item><item><author>jessriedel</author><text>&amp;gt; It’s usually easy enough to remove the bottom cover of any laptop without particularly special screwdrivers.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;particularly special&amp;quot;?  The screwdrivers needed to open up a Macbook are special enough that I&amp;#x27;ve never seen them used for any other object.  So are you just glad that Apple didn&amp;#x27;t decide to create a new screwdriver standard for each Macbook model? :)</text></item><item><author>henriquez</author><text>This is something people often forget about with laptops. Between dust buildup and thermal paste degradation, performance will always slow over time due to rampant thermals. Even tech-savvy people often seem to think their laptop is simply “slowing down” and “too old” when the solution is often as simple as a can of compressed air.&lt;p&gt;I’d really recommend doing the dust cleanup every year or so. It’s usually easy enough to remove the bottom cover of any laptop without particularly special screwdrivers.&lt;p&gt;Desktops (especially the PCs with the case Windows) are a bit easier to understand because you’ll see the clogged intakes and dust buildup much more readily.&lt;p&gt;One thing I like about mechanical keyboards is that the keys can be removed making cleaning much easier. Six months is a better timeline for keyboard cleaning, these things get _nasty_ especially if you have pets.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>swimfar</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s not a fact of life, it&amp;#x27;s due to poorly made screwdrivers&amp;#x2F;bits.  Unfortunately, it&amp;#x27;s getting more difficult to find, or at least be certain of the quality of tools.  You can only really know that it&amp;#x27;s a good tool after getting a lot of use out of it.  But by then that particular tool may no longer be sold, or it may not be manufactured the same way, or even in the same factory.  So any verified reviews may be out of date.</text></comment>
<story><title>Cleaning My MacBook After 16800 Hours of Use</title><url>https://quanticdev.com/articles/cleaning-macbook-after-16800-hours-of-use</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>isoskeles</author><text>I also find these very useful, but I have some that wore down and start stripping the screws.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;d like to find a set that isn&amp;#x27;t prone to wear, unless that is simply a fact of life. I&amp;#x27;m wondering if I was just being too cheap when I bought my first set.</text></item><item><author>neilv</author><text>BTW, one of the most useful tools I&amp;#x27;ve found for working on arbitrary modern electronics (after a basic set of ordinary screwdrivers and jewelers&amp;#x27; drivers, a needlenose pliers, and some kind of spudger) is a $10-$20 set of as many different security screw bits as you can get.  IME, it pays for itself the first time you need one of the bits, and I wish I&amp;#x27;d bought a bigger set the first time.</text></item><item><author>jessriedel</author><text>&amp;gt; It’s usually easy enough to remove the bottom cover of any laptop without particularly special screwdrivers.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;particularly special&amp;quot;?  The screwdrivers needed to open up a Macbook are special enough that I&amp;#x27;ve never seen them used for any other object.  So are you just glad that Apple didn&amp;#x27;t decide to create a new screwdriver standard for each Macbook model? :)</text></item><item><author>henriquez</author><text>This is something people often forget about with laptops. Between dust buildup and thermal paste degradation, performance will always slow over time due to rampant thermals. Even tech-savvy people often seem to think their laptop is simply “slowing down” and “too old” when the solution is often as simple as a can of compressed air.&lt;p&gt;I’d really recommend doing the dust cleanup every year or so. It’s usually easy enough to remove the bottom cover of any laptop without particularly special screwdrivers.&lt;p&gt;Desktops (especially the PCs with the case Windows) are a bit easier to understand because you’ll see the clogged intakes and dust buildup much more readily.&lt;p&gt;One thing I like about mechanical keyboards is that the keys can be removed making cleaning much easier. Six months is a better timeline for keyboard cleaning, these things get _nasty_ especially if you have pets.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Reason077</author><text>I bought this set a year ago and have been very happy with them. The heads&amp;#x2F;bits seem very solid hard steel. Not the soft ones that you often get. Comes with all the weird pentalobe etc bits for Apple and Nintendo etc.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.co.uk&amp;#x2F;gp&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;B0728BJ7TH&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.amazon.co.uk&amp;#x2F;gp&amp;#x2F;product&amp;#x2F;B0728BJ7TH&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>