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I spilled some water on my MacBook at 2:00 a.m. Go up, dried what I could, took out the battery, inverted. Now it won't turn on.
Do I:
a) Leave it inverted or another 24 hours and pray
b) Try to pass it off as not liquid damage and get it repaired under warranty
c) Take it to TekServe, admit the stupidity, have them charge me $250 to take it apart and let each component dry individually then put it back together, find and broken parts, and charge me for them?
d) Get a new Macbook.
If a, b, and/or c don't work, I clearly will have to do d. c is the only one that costs money before d, but I think it's also the most likely to actually FIX it and avoid d in the long run. What do you think?
how much water and where? do you have a genius bar near you? I'm wondering if you should just take it in there?
It fell on the ground next to the computer and sort of seeped in before I woke up enough to panic. The Apple Stores in the city (New York) are booked solid for the next two days, but I could take it to TekServe, which invented the Genius Bar before Apple... borrowed... the idea.
The only question is if i tell them it was a spill or not. If I do, then they have a system to help fix it, but it costs. I I don't, they'll possibly warranty repair it, but probably discover that it's liquid damage and refuse. I would try that and then adjust later i necessary, but I'm afraid that would take me past the time when their liquid damage treatment might actually help.
Is it a unibody MacBook? Because the new models have a built-in liquid sensor, like cell phones have.
No. It's a white one, a bit less than a year old.
I think you should just take it in and see if you can get a warranty repair. I'm not sure you have much to lose at this point.
Water was spilled on they keyboard of Andi's 17 inch powerbook last weekend. I took out the battery and inverted it overnight.
It all depends on the liquid that needs to drain and how moist your room air is as to how fast it can evaporate.
Stop trying it for now, let it dry more without the battery, then the pros.
Okay, DCJ. That sounds sensible.
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