Just what I need, lemme tell ya. I have relied on my laptop so much over the past months, between being stuck in Texas, N.C., or couch surfing here in NOLA.
Saturday afternoon, I was sitting in my living room (Molly’s, at the end of the bar), getting some work done, and the guy next to me asked if he could pull up a website.
I say sure, open up a new tab in Firefox, and rotate it over to him.
What does he do? He knocks half a pint of Harp into my laptop. Inside of two seconds of The Wettening™, I had flipped my powerbook over and removed the battery and powercord.
So now that all is mostly dry and crunchy, I feel a bit disabled,a bit gimpy. I still have my Treo, and while it may have an SSH client, it doesn’t have applications like Fireworks and Photoshop. In another day or so, I’ll disassemble the laptop and begin the cleaning. Hopefully all will be good. If not, the hard drive should be fine, and homeboy will cough up $1800 towards a new MacBook Pro.
And no, he doesn’t have a fist-sized hole in his chest. I exerted every ounce of restraint and grace during this situation, believe it or not.
Did you rinse it? We dd that to a work laptop (that got a full glass of red wine) and it worked after a week of drying. After the wine spilled on it we rinsed it with room temp water. The main thing is taking out the batery and plug.
Four or so years ago my roommate dropped an empty pint glass on my powerbook’s keyboard by accident. There’s nothing like that heart-in-the-throat feeling when you see something happen to your computer.
Luckily he just broke a few keys and was able to acquire replacements for me at $25/key.
Good luck with the laptop.