Dust sneaks its way into Laptops

Dust sneaks its way into Laptops

Dust is a forgotten enemy when it comes to computer maintenance!

No matter what you do (unless you have a high tech lab) you’ll end up with dust all over any room and it gets attracted to computers in two different ways:

  1. Static from the monitor attracts it with magnetism
  2. Computer fans need to suck in air constantly and dust is always floating around

Why does dust slow a laptop down?

It coats the fans used for cooling the hot components down and they become less effective as air doesn’t flow around the heat sinks as much.  It’s like the hottest parts of your computer are wearing a furry coat!

If anything gets too hot internally in laptops the whole system has to slow itself down using less power (and generating less heat).

If you took the time to take apart the laptop then you can easily remove all of the dust with a soft paper towel or cotton bud, you may want a professional to do this if you are unsure or worried about taking your laptop apart!  It shouldn’t cost more than £5 ($8) so don’t let a computer technician rip you off.

An added bonus of removing the dust on fans/heat-sinks is that the fans can run at a much slower speed using less power and more importantly make a lot less annoying whirring noise.