Originally Posted By: speedemon
Originally Posted By: haertig
Originally Posted By: Susan
How much dog hair, cat hair, dust and woodstove ash can they hold?

Studies have shown that the average computer can hold about four times it's internal volume in hair and dust. Additional studies are needed to determine how they do this.

Just don't use a vacuum cleaner (either the normal end or the exhaust end) to clean it out. Vacuums are notorious static electricity generators and can easily fry a computer.

I have fixed a computer in an auto-body shop that wouldn't even turn on by simply blowing it out with an air compressor. Dust has got to be one of the leading killers of computers (laptops especially).


In our house, its not dust that kills laptops, its the two 1 year olds that treat them with the respeat they don't deserve! At this stage cheap laptops are the way to go for home use. 3-500 bucks or pounds gets you a lot of run time. Just back up stuff and treat laptops as throw aways and your golden.

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