The yellowing on my old ThinkPad keyboard is actually growing on me

I see people online scrubbing their retro laptops with peroxide to get them white again, but I think the aged patina tells a story. My T42 from 2004 has this warm amber tone on the spacebar that matches the sticker from a coffee shop in Pittsburgh I went to that year. Has anyone else just decided to leave the yellow as is?

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colemiller6h ago

Get where you're coming from, but I actually prefer the original white myself. The yellowing just looks dirty to me, like it's been sitting in a smoker's house for years. Idk, maybe it's just cause I remember when these were new and the pale beige was part of the whole clean industrial design vibe.