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What kind of accident?

  • Liquid Spill

    Votes: 9 31.0%
  • Drops

    Votes: 14 48.3%
  • Stepped on

    Votes: 2 6.9%
  • Someone tried to fix, but made it worse

    Votes: 1 3.4%
  • Ran Over (Yes I’ve seen a post)

    Votes: 3 10.3%

  • Total voters
    29
  • Poll closed .
None for me, either.

I'm surprised how many spill accidents occur, being that they are almost 100% easily preventable simply by not drinking or putting drinks down within close proximity to the MBP.
 
i'm kindof surprised Apple hasn't made their laptops spill resistant yet.
how hard would it be to put a layer of something to prevent water from getting into major stuff through the keyboard?
 
Dropped from 2 feet on the hinge, a lamp fell and dented a speaker grill, a paper clip got into disk slot, and the glass screen scratched from closing it on a stapled bunch of papers. And it still works as new.
 
I was trying to vote for multiple options. Others say "none" should've been an option. Oh, well.

Anyway, I spilled bottled water on my poor MBP twice and stepped on it once. I dropped it God knows how many times. But it's working well as if nothing happened.
 
i'm kindof surprised Apple hasn't made their laptops spill resistant yet.
how hard would it be to put a layer of something to prevent water from getting into major stuff through the keyboard?

The MBP case is already right on the edge in terms of heat dissipation. I suspect that any sort of protective layer under the keyboard would push it right over and make our relatively quiet notebooks into Harriers.
 
i'm kindof surprised Apple hasn't made their laptops spill resistant yet.
how hard would it be to put a layer of something to prevent water from getting into major stuff through the keyboard?

it's one of the hardest things to seal complex electronics. the hardest thing would be engineer the cooling system on a sealed box!
 
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