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Black Cloth, Mistaken for Mousepad...

JAT said:
You people use mouse pads? Wait, is this an old thread from 1999?
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Nah - it's still a problem. Except it went from friction of the surface to optical problems. If you have a very shiny surface - even laser mice have a hell of a time tracking. For those of us with matte or nicely textured surfaces - they seem to track well. Put it on a glass top, or something with a lot of contrast variation (say a nice coating of shellac) - and tracking not so fantastic.

24" imac has glass screen cover - windex away. Using windex or strong alcohol on a plastic LCD - can prove problematic.

I worth with hi energy optics and lenses for a living - and those "chammy" clothes given for cleaning camera optics / displays and glasses down-right scare me. First thing I do is pitch-em, to make sure nobody uses them.
 
I thought it was an airport antenna to increase my wireless range. No wonder I have a crap quality signal.
 
overcast said:
No it's not, the screen is glass and the panel is behind it. You aren't going to scratch anything with that. It's for wiping down the display. You honestly believe a soft cloth is going to polish aluminum, and that they actually included it for this purpose? lol, cmon man.

Those "recommended" cleaning clothes are a bunch of nonsense. Use a damp(water) microfiber cloth, something like that included with the iMac on normal LCD panels.

This forum is seriously full of misinformed people.
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Actually, I had already edited my post before you posted. Originally, I hadn't realized that this thread was specific to the new iMac. Prior to it and the iPhone, displays used to be made of plastic and were prone to scratching. That's why I had mentioned all of those precautions.

The chamois has been coming with Powerbooks and Cinema Displays for years. Despite your disbelief, it really is for the aluminum not the screen. Look up chamois online or in a dictionary for more information. From one source... "Being somewhat spongy, it easily retains oil, making it good for wiping fingerprints from polished metallic surfaces."
 
mickhyperion said:
The chamois has been coming with Powerbooks and Cinema Displays for years. Despite your disbelief, it really is for the aluminum not the screen. Look up chamois online or in a dictionary for more information. From one source... "Being somewhat spongy, it easily retains oil, making it good for wiping fingerprints from polished metallic surfaces."
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Sorry, but you are incorrect. Not only is the black cloth included with the aluminum iMac designed for cleaning the screen it even says so in the manual. They recommend moistening it with water which is exactly what I do. It couldn't work better.
 
mickhyperion said:
Actually, I had already edited my post before you posted. Originally, I hadn't realized that this thread was specific to the new iMac. Prior to it and the iPhone, displays used to be made of plastic and were prone to scratching. That's why I had mentioned all of those precautions.

The chamois has been coming with Powerbooks and Cinema Displays for years. Despite your disbelief, it really is for the aluminum not the screen. Look up chamois online or in a dictionary for more information. From one source... "Being somewhat spongy, it easily retains oil, making it good for wiping fingerprints from polished metallic surfaces."
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Quit while you're behind. Next you'll be telling me the iPhones calculator app is incorrect because it does order of operations.
 
I'd put money on it being for polishing the iMac. I just bought a DeLorean, and it came with one too, albiet A LOT bigger. WORKS GREAT!!
 
haha

i used my black cloth to wipe my screen and that worked great. Then i wiped down my hole new White Macbook and all the finger prints were gone but it left little black things everywhere. I do not suggest wiping ur hole Macbook with the cloth only the screen. Does anyone think that it would work to clean ur entire Macbook if you washed it first ? ? what do you use to clean ur keys?
 
you have to buy the limited edition imac that comes with the "white mousepad/cloth" for cleaning your white macbook


:D
 
SaSaSushi said:
... it even says so in the manual.
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Indeed. Page 63 here.

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well acually i just finished washing my black cloth and it works great for cleaning my screen and even the top of my white mac
 
iammac100 said:
well acually i just finished washing my black cloth and it works great for cleaning my screen and even the top of my white mac
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No joke, I was wondering the same thing about washing it, because I use it for the whole iMac along with my iPod and iPhone screens and it gets dusty after a while. Not to sound ignorant but how did you go about washing it? With it being microfiber, I didn't know if washing it would ruin the fabric somehow. Thanks for the info!

~Dave
 
davekarn said:
No joke, I was wondering the same thing about washing it, because I use it for the whole iMac along with my iPod and iPhone screens and it gets dusty after a while. Not to sound ignorant but how did you go about washing it? With it being microfiber, I didn't know if washing it would ruin the fabric somehow. Thanks for the info!

~Dave
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Washing shouldn't ruin it, drying on the other hand - might. (especially at hi temps)

I'd just wash by hand with soap under a faucet, rinse it out good, and air dry. Once dry, "wrinkle" it around to get any dust / crud out of it, and it should be good for re-use.

But I still say these are the devil, and disposable soft-wipes are far better / safer. But that is my opinion...
 
here to help

what i did is took it and just filled up a sink then let it stay there. Put it under running water and mix it around. Drain the water then let it fill up and soak again. You should follow those steps a few times then air dry it. After words it should work great. :D
 
The cloth in question looks almost exactly the same as the cloth that came with my 42" Samsung Plasma (and yes there is a problem with that screen too...darn you and your cheap screens Samsung).

It is by process of deduction that I call the supplied black cloth (in a horrible and un-reusable crappy envelope) a screen cleaning cloth.
 
i've always used 3m's mouse pads when mice still had balls in the old days. they were easy to clean and provided good traction. 3m now also has pads that are designed for optical mice also.

iammac100 said:
i used my black cloth to wipe my screen and that worked great. Then i wiped down my hole new White Macbook and all the finger prints were gone but it left little black things everywhere. I do not suggest wiping ur hole Macbook with the cloth only the screen. Does anyone think that it would work to clean ur entire Macbook if you washed it first ? ? what do you use to clean ur keys?
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you mean whole, right? ;)

in any case, i used to clean my entire black MB w/ iklear. it has worked well for my white BT keyboard, and should work for your white MB as well.
 
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Hehehe

Well, I've had my nice shiny iSmack for a few months now, and just got to thinking, "Boy, this dinky little mousepad they included is really annoying! Slides around *just* enough that it makes me wonder if it's really not a mousepad at all..."

Nice to see I'm not the only one who doesn't read owners manuals. I mean seriously. This shiny new $3400 system finally shows up, I pull it out of the box, set it on my desk, plug it in, and what, settle in for a nice long manual read? Ach, no. Turn it on! (and, as it were, watch the infinite loop of crashing commence! Oof. Should have RTFM!)
 
I thought it was just a black handkerchief, to give to your Windows using friends when the begin to cry upon seeing your new iMac!!!! :D:D:D
 
I just bought a mouse pad with a nice wrist rest. Perhaps I won't get carpal tunnel anymore for my hours and hours on this computer.
 
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