Crying over spilt coffee!

[pianodude123]

Hey there,

As a general rule. I don't have drinks w/o lids around my pb for that reason. If you are one who doesn't have this rule, I would get an icurve and a bluetooth keyboard. (see my setup attached) In the future you will never have to worry about this at home, and just have to be more careful while out and about.

CRD

NICE SETUp....what kind of speakers are those...?

 

[crdean1]

NICE SETUp....what kind of speakers are those...?

They are Harmon/Kardon. My bro. in law works for Radio Shack corporate in the computer buying dept, and he gave them to me. come with a nice sub too. I love free stuff.

side note...in that dept. they get alot of samples...he has gotten (for himself) a treo 650, palm lifedrive, 19 in. monitor, hp laptop (mediacenter), speakers, media center keyboard from logitech, printer, and I could go on and on. What great benefits!!

 

[sambo.]

$0.02

when beverage hits lappy

1 - turn pride-and-joy upside down. this it's new "gravity orientation" and should be scrupulously maintained until step 7 (at least)

2 - ARRRGH <or insert primal scream of rage and frustration of your choice>

3 - give a shake to remove excess liquid.

4 - REMOVE KEYBOARD!! (the two little clips at the top?)

5 - carefully DAB! (not wipe) any spillage from under keyboard (if you are quick, you will get very little here)

6 - unplug keyboard and leave seperate to dry, preferably using dry air (not necessarily hot air, but dry air).

<24 hours later>

7 - plug keyboard back in, try to re-start

8 - if puter starts up <rejoice!> try to use keyboard. if keyboard works <REJOICE>. if 'puter fails to start-up, take to apple store <severe-lack-of-rejoicing>

9 - if keyboard fails, unplug. you can try to "wash" it with warm water (hey, i've done this and it worked, until the next coffee/keyboard interface), but be very very careful and give it 24-36 hours to dry out. chances are the keyboard is cactus, in which case go to apple store and order a new one (mine was AUD$200-), plug in and <rejoice!>

i've had coffee/laptop interfaces twice now, the laptop has survived while the keyboard has not. the key here is to prevent coffee getting into the 'puter. TURN UPSIDE DOWN IMMEDIATLY! 😎

suffice to say, i now have certain rules pertaining to laptops and beverages, but hey, it still works! (six years and counting for that G3, i call it "value for money)

 

[CHROMEDOME]

I spilt water on my apple keyboard last week. I just set it upside down and let it dry out and everything worked again.

If you can't fix it go to the Genius bar and don't tell them you split anything on it.

 

[generationxwing]

He made a bet with another friend (some hot chick, if that changes things... 😉 ) about whether or not his iBook was in his backpack or not. He was convinced it wasn't while she thought it was. They did all sorts of tests (weighing it, dropping it lightly etc) to determine whether it was, involving many third parties to offer their opinions too. Finally, after about three hours of this nonsense, my friend made a wager. To prove that he was right, and to show his certainty in his knowledge, he would get his little sister to take the bag over to the washing machine, open the zip, pour the contents in, add some powder and turn it on. 😱

The arguments continued between the two. Was he trying to impress her? We may never know... After another half an hour of this, he finally ventured into the laundry. You should have seen his face as he got closer and closer to the clanking sound eminating from his washer! From 😕 to 😱 and eventually to 😡 ! Truly crazy stuff. Some people really don't deserve Macs. 😀

That is the stupidest ****ing thing I have ever heard in my entire life. That guy is a ****ing moron, and deserves any bad thing that ever comes to him.

Like, really? What in the living **** would possess him to do such a blatantly retarded thing? And what the hell is wrong with his sister that she dumped a laptop out of a backpack and turned on the laundry? Didn't she see a computer? God...any and all genes related to basic intelligence must have skipped that family.

I hope that story is a fake (which it could be). Otherwise, humanity is ****ed with people like that reproducing.

 

[mad jew]

Be afraid generationxwing. He's a "little rich kid" with a brand spanking new PowerBook which replaces his old PowerBook which replaced his original iBook.

We've since gone our separate ways. He's a bit of a loser and we weren't ever terribly close friends anyway.


Oh, and I meant "iBook" in the original post, not "PC laptop". 😕