Chicken Soup for the Macbook
My power cord on the macbook finally gave up the ghost so I took it to the Genius' at the Apple Store and he said I needed a new one and he'd be happy to sell me one for $79.99. I said nyah. I'll get it at Best Buy because they didn't sell me one with a known problem and then look me in the eye and say "Probably a power surge, you're beyond warranty." So, I went to Best Buy and got it
Everything worked swimmingly...
Then I sat down to eat my Quiznos chicken noodle soup and when I took the lid off it the cup of soup slipped from my hand and sort of bounced off the desk and slopped about a quarter cup into the keyboard in a salty tsoupname if destruction.
I leapt to my feet, yanked the new power cord, powered it off flipped it upside down and beat it against the towel laying on the sink before blow drying it and setting it, still upside down, on the hotel's fan/ac/heater in the hopes that it will work for a little while at least to get stuff off it before the salty solution destroys it.
My only words as I saw the soup spillage and started tipping soup out of the keyboard, "Well that's unfortunate."
UPDATE:
Today it turned on and is running OK. I'm ripping things off of it onto a FAT32 partition now since my backups are all Mac backups and I'll be replacing this with a PC so I'll need to be able to get to my stuff. I don't know how long I have before the soup does me in, but I gotta get stuff off so that's what I'm doing before I turn it off and leave it off until it gets to the shop for a thorough cleaning.
3 comments:
I don't know if you meant to write using light gray on white, but it is really hard to read...like whispering for the eyes.
Well that didn't come out right at all. I wonder why it's white.
It's better now! I'm really sorry about the soup. I tipped a beer into my keyboard once. The guy I took it to explained I could not eat or drink at my computer. I told him I had been doing it since 1983 so it worked out to $4.20 a year and was so worth it for me to be comfortable...but I didn't tip it into a MacBook:( Good luck.
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