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Re:One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro) by aeyes on Friday August 28, 2020 @10:37AM (#24305377)
- machine marketed as "Pro" dies from a drop of water
Re:One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro) by pwython on Friday August 28, 2020 @11:01AM (#24305702)
Did this happen to you? Funny story, I spit a mouthful of La Croix on my 2016 touchbar MacBook Pro just the other day (not for fun, wrong pipe). Keyboard, screen, etc. I thought it was a goner. But I wiped it down and it's still fine.
Re:One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro) by vicedvin on Friday August 28, 2020 @12:32PM (#24306853)
Make sure to dry it completely, and the insides too. My friend spilled coffee on a macbook air and it was fine for a month and then died. All the internals were rusted. Coffee is different from soda, but still, take care.
Re:One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro) by rbanffy on Friday August 28, 2020 @07:15PM (#24311496)
OTOH, my wife's MBP was on the backseat of her car when another driver hit the back of her car at high speed, totalling both cars. Her car's trunk and backseat were compressed into about 70 cm.

The computer survived with one scratch to one of its corners.

Re:One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro) by hashedout on Friday August 28, 2020 @12:18PM (#24306704)
This monsoon my backlight started to die. Kept it in a dry environment, it fixed itself. ffs apple.