How To Maintain A MacBook : A Laptop Heads Guide

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“High maintenance means a lot of care. My relationships are high maintenance, my body is high maintenance, and my soul is high maintenance. Above all, my MacBook is the highest maintenance! ”

-A Wise Man

The MacBook is a ramification of Macintosh laptop computers contrived by Apple. The MacBook line subsists of the original MacBook, the MacBook Pro, and the MacBook Air. The MacBook lineup came from the amalgamation of the PowerBook and iBook branches as Apple metamorphosed over to using Intel as a substitute for PowerPC processors.

Most people anticipate that a person buys a MAC for the sole impetus of the lustrous Apple logo that gleams at you when you power on the MacBook. Sending a wave of emotions through your body, making your heart skip a beat with frenzy. Euphoria sets in!

No, that’s not true.

What’s The Need For Maintenance?

Macbooks are notorious for having extortionate prices. So taking punctilious care and maintaining is a monumental way of retrenching those hard earned dollar bills, unless you are loaded with cash.

Let’s get into how to maintain them and give them a proper life.

MacBooks need Air!

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Laptop ventilation is devilishly cardinal to the robustness and eudaemonia of your laptop. Ever think your laptop is heating up too much? The laptop is presumably not getting consequential air continuance. This can lead to exorbitant hardware ‘catch-22’s’ for the laptop.

If all the components are disseminating heat into a teensy-weensy area, the compact and robust insides of the MacBook, the ambient temperature can like a scalded cat, shoot up. If the case is not accordingly ventilated, the blistering air can reverberate in the system overheating, and CPU clock speeds can decline.

So we should use our laptop on a hard surface like such a hard surface because, if we use this laptop on a bed, sofa, cushion or pillow then there is a ventilation grill given on the bottom from where air is blown outwards.

So, if you use it on any soft surface, the ventilation will get blocked and instead of wind being blown outwards, will rotate around on the inside due to which it can damage the internal parts.

If you still want to use the laptop on a sofa or bed then you need to use a laptop riser. This you can get on Amazon or any other online website so you need to keep this (riser) on the sofa or bed, keep the laptop on top of it and then you can easily use the laptop .

How To Maintain The Battery?

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We should charge the battery using the original charger and should not use a duplicate charger, because that will affect the battery and also it will affect the MacBook.

So whenever you plug it in to charge, it will turn orange and when it’s battery charges to 100% it will turn green. So you need to keep that in mind and disconnect it.

If you don’t disconnect it, it will affect the battery health and when the battery again drains to about 20% then you need to plug it in again.

Charging a laptop to 100% is not appreciated, but do charge it to the brim once in a month. Drain it’s battery completely and charge it to full which is also known as battery calibration. You need to use the original charger only.

Quintessential MacBook cleaning

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“You don’t need much to clean a computer,” said Jolie Kerr, New York Times patron, cleaning expert and host of the podcast “Ask a Clean Person.” “I use exactly four things to keep my laptop clean: Rubbing alcohol, microfiber cloths, cotton swabs and canned air.”

That’s to the hilt, spot on. You need to use a microfiber cloth and use a cleaning solution like the rubbing alcohol.

If you use cleaning solutions like Colin™, keep in mind that you don’t spray it directly on the body of the laptop because, if liquid seeps into the laptop then it will come under liquid or physical damage.

So by and large, spray the cleaning solution onto the microfiber cloth. After spraying you can easily clean the body.

Correspondingly, you can clean the back as well. Be sure to ease up on the dosage of the cleaning solution that you use. So for the outer body shell, you can use Colin™. For the inner body, you can use rubbing alcohol.

Keep in mind that you don’t apply too much pressure while cleaning. Do it very smoothly and lightly so that you don’t damage your MacBook. You need to do it with ease and gently to clean the dust off of the laptop.

Garrisoning The Screen And The Keyboard

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The screen scratch guard comes in three different options, Glossy, matte, and privacy filter. It is endorsed because using this will keep the actual screen safe and at the same time, it will not develop any keyboard imprints. It will be protected from scratches and smudges and you can change it yearly so that your screen remains safe.

Taking the high road and buying the silicon keyguard goes a long way, because unequivocally it will protect your laptop. If any dust particle tries to enter or you have flimsy hands and tend to spill any liquid, then your keyboard will remain safe. It will also protect the MacBook to some extent.

Final Words

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Apple has really nailed the basics that the user can want in a laptop, a beautiful color rich display, slim design, trackpad that is massively congenial to use, and of course, social validation. But just like everything in this world is not perfect, the MacBook has its shares of drawbacks as well.

Apple has really compromised on the keyboard, in the race of making this MacBook slimmer. Even a speck of dust gets inside the keys and they stop responding normally. You have to press harder a couple of times. So maintenance is the highest service which you can offer to your Macbook.

If you are in the creative industry and don’t like MacBooks, sooner or later you have to get into the Mac OS ecosystem or you will be the odd one out.