How to Protect Your Laptop from Damage

We take our laptops everywhere – school, work, coffee shops, co-working spaces, and all the in-between places. They go with us in the car, on the bus, on the plane. If we go, our laptops go with us. Along the way, dents and dings, scratches, dust, spilled liquids, and impact damage are a daily risk.

These risks go far beyond cosmetic damage. One bad drop or one spilled coffee, and your laptop may need costly repairs or a complete replacement.

Here are five ways to keep your laptop pristine and protected.

Do I Really Need to Protect My Laptop?

A laptop computer is an expensive, sensitive device, and even the most careful people can find themselves needing repairs or a replacement in a hurry. There’s never a convenient time to fix or replace a broken laptop.

According to Google Trends, worldwide searches for the term “how to protect laptop” have been trending upward over the past five years – keeping pace with the rise of remote and hybrid work arrangements, as well as remote learning.

Google searches for “how to protect laptop” have been increasing over the past five years. Image Source

This indicates that with the increasing mobility of our academic and professional lives, people are more and more concerned about protecting their laptops. Often, people aren’t motivated to look for a preventative solution until something bad happens. So it’s logical to infer that more people than ever are experiencing a damaged laptop and are looking for ways to prevent it from happening again.

How To Protect Your Laptop from Damage – 5 Dangers and Solutions

The leading causes of damage to a laptop are everyday scratches and dings, contact with liquid, improper cleaning, heat damage, and impact damage like drops and other blunt force trauma. Here’s how to guard your investment against all of these dangers.

1. How to protect my laptop from scratches and dings?

This is the first thing you may ask yourself when researching how to protect your laptop, and it’s perhaps the most common type of damage. Your laptop can easily sustain scratches, dings, and gouges through the course of normal daily use. Absently toss your keys into your computer bag once and you’ll live with the reminders for the life of your laptop.

While your device may be able to continue relatively normal functioning for years with this type of wear and tear, your laptop is an expensive investment, and it’s a device that you’re likely using for hours a day. You shouldn’t have to look at a cracked screen, dead pixels, and exterior damage every time you open your laptop.

A laptop sleeve can virtually eliminate the risk of this type of damage. Light and extensively customizable, a laptop sleeve can be more than a convenient way to protect your laptop. For students, a laptop sleeve in the school colors emblazoned with the mascot is a great way to boost school spirit, and for business owners it can be a powerful extension of your brand.

2. Preventing liquid damage

The mortal enemy of virtually any electronic device, liquids like water, coffee, soda, and juice are constantly within an arm’s reach. It’s incredibly easy to spill coffee from an improperly fastened lid, or to tip over a bowl or soup or cereal – particularly if there are small children or pets involved.

Even if you manage to keep your laptop far away from liquid foods and drinks, the danger doesn’t stop there. Unexpected weather changes can leave you walking across a school or business campus, or from a building to a vehicle, with rain seeping into the laptop you’ve placed in your backpack or hidden under your coat.

Once again, a laptop sleeve is a simple way to add valuable protection for your sensitive device. At Custom Logo Cases, our laptop sleeves come in water-resistant neoprene or a variety of leather styles (vegan polyurethane or real). For example, this custom leather flap laptop sleeve.

While of course there’s no way to completely eliminate the risk of liquid damage, putting a laptop sleeve between your device and the elements – or a wine glass launched by a rampaging Pomeranian – can help you avoid most disasters.

3. Avoiding dangers of improper cleaning – or no cleaning at all

Dirt and dust will naturally build up on your laptop over the years, not to mention the residue speckling your screen. Neglecting to clean your laptop regularly, or cleaning it improperly, can lead to avoidable damage.

Don’t blow into your laptop, as this can introduce moisture to its vulnerable interior. A simple compressed air canister can remove dust and lint that collects in your keyboard keys and vents.

Likewise, if your screen is dirty, don’t simply dampen a paper towel or rag and start rubbing the screen, as these are coarse materials that can cause scratches and other damage, and droplets can run down into your laptop and cause more serious damage. Also, avoid using rubbing alcohol. Instead, a dry microfiber cloth, such as you would use to clean your eyeglasses, can work wonders to remove months of dried droplets from soda can spray and other residue.

Carrying and storing your device in a laptop sleeve will slow the accumulation of foreign matter and help your laptop stay cleaner for longer. Also, consider a keyboard cover to help keep residue from collecting in your keys.

4. Heat damage: the silent danger

Laptops can overheat, and they’re vulnerable to high temperatures. Placing yours on a blanket while you work or study can block airflow to the vents. Using a lap desk, or even placing your laptop sleeve between your device and the blanket, can help sustain airflow under your device and avoid overheating.

Additionally, leaving your computer bag in an unattended vehicle can expose your laptop to dangerous temperatures. It doesn’t have to be the middle of summer for the temperature inside a vehicle to quickly rise to harmful levels. Similar to how you would never leave a pet in your car while you run errands, don’t do this with your laptop either.

5. How to protect against impact damage

Imagine dozing with your laptop on your lap and waking to find it on the tile floor, or slinging your backpack into a wooden chair while forgetting there’s a laptop inside, or watching a TSA agent roughly reorganize a tray that contains your laptop as you go through airport security, or riding the crosstown bus while it makes a tight turn that sends your suitcase flying from the luggage rack onto the aisle – with your laptop in the outside flap.

All of these are scenarios that put your laptop at risk of impact damage. For those who want to know how to protect your laptop from drops, kicks, and other rough landings, a laptop sleeve adds a protective layer that can absorb some of the impact.

While it’s impossible to protect against all impacts, a laptop sleeve can help mitigate damage if your device has an encounter with the floor or another hard object at a dangerous rate of speed.

How to get a custom laptop sleeve

At Custom Logo Cases, we specialize in a wide range of custom laptop sleeves, cases for iPads and other tablets, and cases for mobile phones, including iPhones.

Academic institutions as well as business or government organizations can build brand awareness, boost student and employee culture, and help protect valuable assets by investing in custom laptop sleeves. These accessories can perfectly match school and brand colors, and include mascots, logos, and other images.

Designing a custom laptop sleeve for your school, or a branded laptop sleeve for your business, is a great way to protect laptops from damage while boosting the visibility of your organization and instilling a greater sense of community among their users.

We’re trusted by brands including the BBC, Kawasaki, Uber, Stanford University, DHL, Deutsche Bank, Whole Foods, and Mercedes-Benz.

Here’s the step-by-step process:

1. Our design experts will take your desired specifications and create a free proof.
2. We’ll deliver samples to you at no cost
3. Once you and our team have finalized your design, we will create a prototype.
4. Your laptop sleeves will arrive to you in a timely manner, no matter where you are on the globe.

For information about rush orders, our money-back guarantee, minimum order size, or to request pricing or ask other questions, please contact us.

Secure Your Devices & Amplify Your Brand with Custom Logo Cases

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✏️ Custom Solutions Tailored to You: Whether it’s for a school, business, or government organization, our design experts work with you to create the perfect match for your brand colors and logo.

🌟 Trusted by Leading Brands: Join the ranks of the BBC, Kawasaki, Uber, and more who trust us to protect their devices while boosting brand visibility.

✔️ Risk-Free Process: Enjoy free proofs, sample deliveries, and a money-back guarantee. We’re dedicated to your satisfaction from design to delivery.

Don’t wait for the next spilled coffee or unexpected drop to think about protection.

Contact us today to get a quote or assistance with your custom brand printing needs. Protect your devices, promote your brand, and unite your community with style.