Comments on: 6 ways to give your Mac a thorough New Year’s cleaning

By: Dave Greenbaum

Dave Greenbaum — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:03:24 +0000

Not right now, but I’ll try to write one in the next few weeks. Keep watching for it.

By: Bob

Bob — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 03:14:40 +0000

Any suggestions on how to do a clean install of Lion or make a boot disc?

By: Dave Greenbaum

Dave Greenbaum — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:27:31 +0000

Can you offer some useful ones that should be added?

By: Dave Greenbaum

Dave Greenbaum — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:26:56 +0000

I agree for regular cleaning a microbfiber cloth is great…that is if you regularly clean. For many of us, we don’t do it nearly often enough and stuff develops on the screen. A key indictor is when you start wondering why iPhoto won’t remove those black dots in the picture. Oh wait, that isn’t the photo, that’s my screen!

By: Dave Greenbaum

Dave Greenbaum — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:24:56 +0000

Thanks! It’s the modern day version of “zap the pram”. Useful only in a very limited set of circumstances

By: Dave Greenbaum

Dave Greenbaum — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 19:23:02 +0000

A clean install can be good but very time consuming. Good idea for a future article. I generally do a clean install every other time I purchase a new Mac

By: anonyMouse

anonyMouse — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:18:17 +0000

What a load of useless suggestions

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:53:03 +0000

To clean that screen, you actually need nothing more than a microfiber cloth and a fine mist of plain old tap water from a spray bottle. This chemical-free approach actually works on most things around the home if the item isn’t too soiled or needs to be disinfected.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 14:02:12 +0000

Thank you *so* much for not saying “Repair Permissions”, the #1 most-given bit of wrong advice ever on the OS X platform. Very refreshing to see an actual list of useful tidbits instead of voodo http://daringfireball.net/2006/04/repair_permissions_voodoo

By: Sko

Sko — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:54:59 +0000

iMac has too bad cooling system. At least 24″ one. Due to that fact HDD’s temp grows too high (which HDDs most hates) while iMac is working. And thats why “Your hard drive … is a common point of failure in Macs.” There is no software solution and your HDD will die soon whatever you do unless you will not turn your iMac on :).
IMHO it’s the main point of iMac’s design. Apple just want you to buy new model of iMac every 2-3 years and you’ll do, believe me.