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.
Are you for real. What a dumbass comment to make. Jackass.
Check your attitude man.
@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”
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!
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
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.
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.
. hope it goes well!