How I clean my computer keyboards!

Keyboard Cleaning: Handheld Vacuum vs. Compressed Air Duster (JML Go Vac & Whatook reviews)

These Blowers Changed How I Clean My Keyboard! 

Are your keyboards absolutely filthy? I'm unboxing and reviewing two popular gadgets that might clean them: the JML Go Vac 3-in-1 handheld vacuum and the Whatook Compressed Air Duster. Putting them to the test on my disgusting PC and MacBook Pro keyboards, comparing which is more effective. The Go Vac sucks up the dirt for a tidy cleanup, while the Whatook blows it away with serious power. I show how much grime is hidden beneath the keys and find out which of these tools is the best solution for a clean work battlestation!

How I clean my computer keyboards!



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I don't know about you, but my keyboards are absolutely filthy disgusting. This is my PC keyboard. Look at it. Absolutely disgusting. And my MacBook Pro that I've had for 3 years. I... I know. I can tell just from the key action that there must be all kinds of grime and dust and dirt underneath those uh lovely Silicon Valley designed Apple keys there. So, what's the best way to clean them? I did try one of those um aerosol cans with the straw on the end and the problem with that is that it does actually drip out some liquid which is the whole point of the thing that you want to avoid. It just seems pointless. So I bought... impulsively I bought this JML Govac 3-in-1 vac blower and inflator uh in the supermarket. This was straight off the supermarket shelf. And on Amazon, I bought this Whatook? Whatook... Whatook compressed air duster. And I think they're slightly different. They're priced pretty much exactly the same at the moment, but the Go Vac is is what it says it is. So, it's a vacuum, a small uh cordless handheld vacuum. So, it can suck and blow. So, it's a vac blower and inflator. And the... the other one, the Whatook compressed air duster, just blows. It just blows. And I've got my teenage son giggling away behind the camera there at me saying that it blows and sucks as it goes. But which... which one's the best? What am I going to use? Let's dive into my filthy keyboards and we will unbox these blowers and suckers and see which one works. I'm going to unbox the compressed air duster, the blower first. because my son wants it and he wants it right now. So, uh, if you come... come over, you can get a bit of closeup. I don't know if you can see that on... on my camera, too. It comes wrapped up in a bag and it comes with all these attachments. Although, weirdly, so my son got one of these before and it didn't have any attachments in, did it? Uh, it looked like it should have. It came with one. This one comes with the... the main unit itself, obviously, and it Oh, that's protectively taped up. So, this is your main blower. Wow, this looks great. Oh, you hold it for 3 seconds to start. Here we go. See if there's any charge in it. [Music] 

So, it looks like there are three power settings. You just click the trigger button. Got a nice bag to keep all the bits in. That's going to be so crucial with this actually. And then we have different nozzles that clip on. So, that just squeezes on. And does that go on? No. So obviously I'm doing this for the first time itself. Oh, right. So they clip inside the the orange thing here. So if you put... there's like a brush attachment. And then we have this... is for blowing sideways. What's that for? There's a long reach nozzle. I want to use this one on my MacBook, I think. So I'm just going to use this. This nozzle. Is that the Yeah, this is like the most narrow nozzle. Here we go. Go close. Be able to see it. Oh, I don't think you see that. Can you see how much it also has an LED light that shines?

That's good. But the real test is for the keys, the keyboard. Should we have a go? I think I'll use the brush attachment for this. This is the one we bought before, which is smaller. I thought this was the same. What's great about this one, though, is you think it's more powerful. is way more powerful. Should I turn it on? Hold it down and it's got a light there and there's like a trigger there and then it's got three modes. Yeah, like that. Yeah. Or if you just hold it down. Yeah. Okay. Wow. It's blowing the stuff off the... But the downside with it was it doesn't have any attachments. No attachments. Well, it had one. It was just that and it fell off. And look, the plastic is cracking as well. So these and you haven't done an Oops. Sorry. Didn't mean to do that. You owe me a new one. You broke it. Here you go. So I'm going to now brush the keys. Are you able to go? Just hold it down. Right. Go close on the keys. Here we Oh, it blew the thing off. There you go. 

Oh, wow. I don't know if you can hear me over the noise, but um we're in bright sunlight, so you probably can't see the amount of dust that's coming out. Oh, can you see the debris coming out? Oh, yeah. This has never been cleaned like this. Oh, your escape key works better now, does it? Yeah. Look, it doesn't it doesn't stick down anymore. Oh my god, that's fine. That one actually works now. That used to just get stuck. Oh, it does a little bit. Oh, so okay. So, we've already improved the keyboard. So, this is great, but uh you can't see what power setting you have. Uh you just have to sort of guess from the sound, and there's a dog hair under my space key here that I just can't get to, but it seems really powerful. So, all in all, I'm impressed with I've blown the box away. All in all, I'm impressed with this blaster. You can actually charge it from USB-C, which is really helpful. I I wish there'd be a display and the nozzle seems to fall off really easily, but just for a handheld blower, it's going to be really helpful around the house. We're going to use this a lot, I think. Let's move to the next uh the next product. This is a JML product, which is quite famous here in the UK. In the box, we get this looks so similar. So, we have an on/off switch here, and it's a definite push button on off USB-C charging. We also get a filter and a dust bin that sits inside the dust collector. And it looks like this filter is washable as well, which is really handy. I guess that just clips onto here. And finally, the nozzle attachments. I hope a crevice nozzle. There's a brush attachment that goes on. I don't know what these are. Oh, right. So, these are for the other end. So, this is a wide inflator nozzle. So, you can use it as a blower. Oh, yeah. Right. Okay. So, while it sucks at this end, it actually blows out that end. And you can actually put that on and use it to inflate an inflatable bed or something that needs blowing up. This is a narrow blower inflator nozzle. So, let's dive in. And it's a little bit unfair of me to be testing both of these straight out of the box because they're not fully charged. I should probably fully charge them. But I just uh just too excited. I just wanted to get in here and clean this absolutely disgusting keyboard. There is all sorts of debris underneath. And what's great with both of these is that it'll be... it'll be really helpful for pushing out anything loose like grains of rice or any big bits of dirt that would actually affect the key action. What's really working well with this particular vacuum, rather than blowing it all out, I'm able to actually dislodge all of the filth on the side of the keys with the brush attachment. And that's actually uh lifting off even more dirt than the... the free and loose dirt that's underneath the keys. So easy to run it in between the letters and numbers. And just look at the chunks of fills coming out from underneath the space bar. I didn't realize there was quite that much. Quite a lot of dog hair. It has to be said. It's good that it's sort of dislodging all of that caked on dust that's on the sides of the keys. Just makes the thing look nicer as well as run more efficiently. Looking at the box on... on this, it's good for cereal upholstery, coffee. This would work really well in a car, I think, as well. Just getting into all of those nooks and cran crannies. This is the real test, though. Let's see how much filth is in the dust bin. So, I'll take off the nozzle and I think I can pull the filter out with my finger. Wow, look at all that. That's just from a few minutes with no charge as well, just with the charge that the vacuum came in the box. That has brought out so much stuff from underneath the keys. And that might be really good to run on my... on my laptop as well. I might run this over. So, obviously there are two different ways of doing this now. You either blow it out and it goes everywhere. Or you could do the tidier version of using a vacuum to suck it out and then you can actually see how much stuff comes... comes off. Is this helping? Are these things that you need in your life? Let me know down in the comments below. And I'll leave links to something that's close to these two. Either a handheld vacuum or just a compressed air blower. Thank you for hitting the thumbs up or the subscribe button. and it really helps me to keep this channel going. And right here is what YouTube knows you want to be watching next.

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