OK, I've been reading this thread with amusement and decided to add my $0.01 from experience. I have a can of compressed air and decided to "dust" my machine a while back. I was very careful to use short bursts of air to avoid condensation. I finished by using a ever so slightly moist rag to wipe some surfaces inside and out and carefully closed the case and went back to work. A few days later, I needed to burn a disc but my drive wouldn't recognize the blank so I opened the case to try to see what might be loose, etc. Seeing nothing, it finally hit me what probably happened. I pulled out a CD drive cleaning disc and ran it on my burner. Sure enough, some of that chased dust had managed to work its way inside to coat the lens on the burner. Caveat!
YMMV
But if both the vacuum cleaner and the computer are grounded I expect that static discharge will not happen.
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