It finally happened to me - and I was asking for it

Kinda OT, but I just wanted to share my pain. I had a full beer poured into my macbook this last weekend.

Small b-day party for a friend (at my house), I had just busted out my laptop + apc to run monomulator and flin with a nice kore patch for winding down the evening with textures and a pretty light show. The disco ball was turning slowly, a lovely blue. This was just messing around, no actual gig, so all my gear was on the carpet (usually safe in my case). My (very drunk) friend leans in to check out the APC, and bam - I look down and IPA is glugging out of a horizontal bottle right into the keyboard of the mac. Everything's in slow motion, and I turn the laptop upside down. I was wasted enough to lose time marvelling stupidly at how flin and the APC didn't hiccup at all, before I hear another friend - as if from a mile away, speaking through a pound of cotton - yelling to yank the power and pull the battery. Hard shutdown, power out, I've let the thing sit upside down for three days now, occasional hair dryer. Time for ifixit.com and distilled water now. I just hope I pulled the power in time...

We had just seen the new Tron. I'm now having nightmares of a 17-story beer teetering and falling onto the Grid, tiny programs running, screaming and getting de-rezzed in a sea of swirling froth.

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dude. ouch.
if it wont work tell the guy to pay for at least half of it. 1k or not.

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Originally Posted by dumdidum

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Are you for real. What a dumbass comment to make. Jackass.
Check your attitude man.


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@Zac, feel for ya man. Been ther my self.
I left a can of beer in my gig bag about 5 years ago. It split and totally soaked my iBook.

It still functioned but the screen was effed. I used it for a week with a 19" Dell monitor and then sent it in to Apple.
Needed a new Logic board. Yikes, £400. Luckily my g/f worked at te Apple resellers and she managed to get it fixed on my Apple care which doesnt cover accidental damage. The guy at the repair place was cool although he did say that "its stank of beer"

Hope it works out bro.

@ Zac that sucks mate, hope you got to it in time! Liquids & tech are never a good combination.

dang that sucks bro, hope you get to fix it.


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wait, it was blackie that got f'ed up? Man that really sucks! Black Macbooks are pretty hard to come by.

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Originally Posted by dumdidum

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Yeah, what up man? I was trying to make it visually rich (ribbed) for your reading pleasure. You gotta laugh when this kind of sh*t happens, or else...

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Originally Posted by JesC

wait, it was blackie that got f'ed up? Man that really sucks! Black Macbooks are pretty hard to come by.

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Yeah JesC - is there some pic out there I don't know about, or did you get that from the 2.4 Ghz in my sig? That's the one :(

Thanks guys. - I remember how easy it was to take apart a g3 powerbook, not looking forward to this. But hey, I've got a story. (Un)fortunately, the dude who spilled the beer is one of my oldest and best friends, so no compensation there, lol!

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Originally Posted by Zac Kyoti

Yeah JesC - is there some pic out there I don't know about, or did you get that from the 2.4 Ghz in my sig? That's the one :(

Thanks guys. - I remember how easy it was to take apart a g3 powerbook, not looking forward to this. But hey, I've got a story. (Un)fortunately, the dude who spilled the beer is one of my oldest and best friends, so no compensation there, lol!

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we had the same setups Black MB and Black VCI-100se the death star! Man...now Im scared, i dont want anyone near the dj booth anymore.

borrow his flash new phone and drop it into your coffee accidentaly, that should make you feel better :p

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Originally Posted by JesC

now Im scared, i dont want anyone near the dj booth anymore.

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Im paranoid beyond all reason.
I can sense a drink coming over from 20 yards...
Out goes the hand in a kinda "STOP, dont come any closer" gesture.

I've warded off 14 years of drunk punters stumbling with beers, never an accident. Of course it's the chill, at-home moment that does it, right?

I like the phone in the coffee idea. Muahhahah!

just for future protection... would a keyboard cover have done anything to protect it. http://www.kbcovers.com/servlet/StoreFront


Im so carefull paranoid about my equipment... this unfortunate experience of yours will only make me even more carefull.

I feel for you and really hope your able to get the computer back to 100% again.

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Originally Posted by Karlos Santos

Are you for real. What a dumbass comment to make. Jackass.
Check your attitude man.


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@Zac, feel for ya man. Been ther my self.
I left a can of beer in my gig bag about 5 years ago. It split and totally soaked my iBook.

It still functioned but the screen was effed. I used it for a week with a 19" Dell monitor and then sent it in to Apple.
Needed a new Logic board. Yikes, £400. Luckily my g/f worked at te Apple resellers and she managed to get it fixed on my Apple care which doesnt cover accidental damage. The guy at the repair place was cool although he did say that "its stank of beer"

Hope it works out bro.

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Made me laugh (tl;dr that is). Feel your pain bro, my computer turned out fine when it happened to me, hope the same happens for you!

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Originally Posted by Karlos Santos

Im paranoid beyond all reason.
I can sense a drink coming over from 20 yards...
Out goes the hand in a kinda "STOP, dont come any closer" gesture.

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if you ever want to hear me scream the loudest, just come near my gear with any liquid. I somehow put out a hulk scream that can deafen........something smaller than a human i guess....but still loud

at OP: dude just reading the first line hurt.

so sorry to hear man:(. hope it goes well!

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Originally Posted by Zac Kyoti

Yeah, what up man? I was trying to make it visually rich (ribbed) for your reading pleasure. You gotta laugh when this kind of sh*t happens, or else...

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Originally Posted by Zac Kyoti

Everything's in slow motion, and I turn the laptop upside down .....before I hear another friend - as if from a mile away, speaking through a pound of cotton - yelling to yank the power and pull the battery. Hard shutdown, power out.

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Very well done on the story. I was completely engrossed in the moment and, I too, was crying on the inside. Very sad to hear, but crossing fingers.....now, that all will be ok.


Looking forward to an equally immersive success story to counteract the Oh Noes! vibe.

[QUOTE=JesC;198356 Man...now Im scared, i dont want anyone near the dj booth anymore.[/QUOTE]


Bear Traps :D

http://media.giantbomb.com/uploads/0...uper_large.jpg

Wow that sucks. You should be fine though, my mbp has survived a spill from a long island and a direct hit (full glass worth) of a sea breeze and it works fine despite half the back lights not working and the keys being sticky from time to time.

http://mimg.ugo.com/200903/21022/cut...ce_288x288.jpg

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douchebag

Well guess what happened. My mug of morning tea felt like being sympathetic to your plight and finally emptied itself into the very laptop I'm typing this with.

Honestly, I don't get what all the fuss with liquids being bad for laptops is all aboot. My kebyoadf is stlll wkrind perfcls sidj plsf k %? '.r
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I like the bear trap idea.

I think I would be properly shattered after such an accident.

I've luckily not yet had anyone spill anything on my laptop. Somehow my charming powers of persuasion are able to keep liquid brandishing individuals away from my valuable electronics.

Then again my idea of charming powers of persuasion tends to be me waving a rusty machete frantically, red faced, screaming spittle, yelling indiscernible obscenities at anyone who comes anywhere near my stuff with more than 1ml of liquid. I am more of a douche about it than those fuckers at US airports.

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I like the bear trap idea.

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My gear....your foot. Choose wisely.



Hey, if you're lucky...you might end up with a date to the afterparty.

The afterparty is always called Sexy Party...bear traps are sexy, right?


If bear traps are too cruel...you could always spring one of these.....

http://www.finewellcallitsoccer.com/...0/03/hcQtS.jpg

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http://mimg.ugo.com/200903/21022/cut...ce_288x288.jpg

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lolz...we played electric fence when we were kids.....I can now power the s4 without any additional assistance. :D

I think I'm in the clear.

Got the thing open (what a drag), and all I can say is, thank god for the tight apple construction. Things could have been a lot worse. There was a small amount of beer on the logic board, but most of it ended up in the keyboard assembly and ports. Distilled water and a lot of q-tips did the trick. Had to take all the keys off and scrub em, plus most of the top case, inside and out. But she's purring away now, no hint of a glitch. I am RELIEVED.

This will never happen again, no way, no how.

glad to hear its alright!

well done mate, you dodged a bullet there!'

when u had pc laptops i couldnt have cared less about drinks food near them.. but since buying a macbook i've been super anal about what is in the vicinity. its like i have a 1 mtr buffer zone from ANYTHING that's near it - and definitiely no food or drinks around it!


...i really should look at home and contents insurance options come to think of it - so should everyone as most policies (here in australia at least) cover accidental damage

I always use a rubber keyboard cover, you never know these days...
Glad all worked out well for you at the end ;)

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Originally Posted by bumtsch

Well guess what happened. My mug of morning tea felt like being sympathetic to your plight and finally emptied itself into the very laptop I'm typing this with.

Honestly, I don't get what all the fuss with liquids being bad for laptops is all aboot. My kebyoadf is stlll wkrind perfcls sidj plsf k %? '.r
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ha ha. cracks me up