Microsoft's Surface Laptop -ugh, that name - is one of the more interesting device announcements we're seen so far on 2017. it's mid- range notebook with a stripped-down operating system designed with simplicity in mind, and carries a not -quite-budget price of $999. It also happens to have an interior adorned with fabric. How luxurious! Unfortunately for Microsoft, there's really,really good reason why fabric and electronics don't usually mingle: humans are gross.
Microsoft didn't choose just any old fabric for its fancy new laptop. instead,it sourced color-matched Alcantara, which is essentially a 70-30 mix polyester and polyurethane.It's an extremely a durable material, and doesn't physically wear through or fray very easily, which is why it's good choice for applications where an object is going to see lots of contact.
However, like anything repeatedly touched human hands,it's prone to dirt build up. Even the smooth plastic or metal surface of a smartphone or traditional laptop keyboard builds up first and grime over time, but fabric marks thing worse. How much worse? Microsoft's past use of Alcatara on Surface device can give us a pretty good idea.
The greasy, grimy, oddly brown object you see in the photo above is the
surface Pro 4 "signature Type Cover" Which also happen to be covered in Alcantara fabric. The photo was posted to a number of months ago, which the owner of the device begging for advice on how to clean it off .
Similar threads can be found on Microsoft forums and other places around the Web. Fellow owners often empathize and share there own dirty-keybord woes, calming that they've resorted to everything from microfiber cloths, alcohol-socket rags and vacuums to
"unscented baby wipe." The percentage of success seems to be about fifty with any giving method.
Sure, fabric might feel nice on your wrists and avoid that "cold steel" feel of many laptops, but the trade-off is toting around a fitly gadget or preforming an obviously much more complicated cleaning process than simply wiping the grime off.
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