Cleaning Laptop Fan

[Moh]

Well I think I need to clean my laptops fan, but I have never cleaned a laptop fan before.

Is it tricky? or is it as easy as a desktop?

[iFuseDan]

Grab yourself some compressed air, but otherwise its just the same as anything else really.

[Recursion]

Buy a can of compressed air, but be carefull because sometimes it has liquid in. Im not being funny but just get a hoover and shove the pipe of the fan for about 5 seconds.

[Fifteen]

I hoover my laptop:8

[iFuseDan]

Really, im surprised it doesnt break - being a technician for several years of my life let me give you an idea of how thats setting up for fail - The reason hoovers can collect dust etc, is the nature of how they work is basicly enducing static charge over the actual hoover bits themselves - so if you get that too close to a component, you can literally surge it - I have seen this more than once. The fluid in an air-can is usually alcohol or butane/propane based, both of which evaporate quickly and dont cause any harm to your computers/laptops.

[Moh]

With compressed air, will I still have to open up my laptop?

[iFuseDan]

You shouldnt need to open it up lol, only if there is so much dust that it wont blow through - most of the time it doesnt require being opened....