Cleaning MacBook speaker grills?
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This is not my photo, but I have an Air M1 with the grills as shown in the photo below, and after 3 years of daily use, they are full of gunk and I hate looking at it.
I keep my laptop clean using tech wipes, but this is something I can't work out how to clean. My understanding is that they are not actually grills, but simply indents in the aluminium, with black dots painted inside them, to make them look like grills, so they are fake. (with the exception of one tiny 1cm area on the left hand side) All this for aesthetics apparently.
This means that you have to be really careful about how you clean them. If you poke anything in there like a stuff bristled brush, you can dislodge the black paint. If you try to vacuum the holes out, you can vacuum out the black paint... if this happens, it looks dreadful, as you end up with loads of shiny bare aluminium dots.
I've tried wiping them with wipes, but it doesn't work. I even tried Playdoh but it didn't lift anything out, and even worse, a small amount of it went down into the indents and got stuck...
This may all seem pedantic... but any suggestions?
I keep my laptop clean using tech wipes, but this is something I can't work out how to clean. My understanding is that they are not actually grills, but simply indents in the aluminium, with black dots painted inside them, to make them look like grills, so they are fake. (with the exception of one tiny 1cm area on the left hand side) All this for aesthetics apparently.
This means that you have to be really careful about how you clean them. If you poke anything in there like a stuff bristled brush, you can dislodge the black paint. If you try to vacuum the holes out, you can vacuum out the black paint... if this happens, it looks dreadful, as you end up with loads of shiny bare aluminium dots.
I've tried wiping them with wipes, but it doesn't work. I even tried Playdoh but it didn't lift anything out, and even worse, a small amount of it went down into the indents and got stuck...
This may all seem pedantic... but any suggestions?
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