fried laptop, what to do?
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- orpkoobcam2
My mid 2009 macbook pro is dead, it's a case of tea on the motherboard.
What to do:
1 - sell as broken for spares on ebay, get around £200 - £300.
2 - Fix, replace motherboard at repair shop £800 - £1000.
3 - Fix, replace motherboard myself, board costs £440 + a screw driver and time. But might end up not working if it was other bits that fried.
The used selling price of a working model is around £900 ish.
Next time, getting insurance...
- epill0
take it to apple and see if they can extract any of your info.. if n0t then climb a tree and throw it high into the sky!!
- Hard drive was undamaged and so that's a big relief.orpkoobcam2
- kgvs720
Sell it for parts on ebay, buy a new one with insurance.
- Have no insurance.orpkoobcam2
- i think he is saying to use the money earned from ebay and purchase insurance for new 1epill
- Yeah that's what I meant.kgvs72
- i_monk0
Why does your To Do list contain mutually exclusive steps?
- doesnotexist0
sell als broken for that much?
i've tried that before and had no buyers. now it just sits in my closet.
recycle it.
- vaxorcist0
ebay sell! and/or a local mac repair shop.....
- doesnotexist0
put it in resin á la Arman
- omg0
Turn it into a macquarium
- orpkoobcam20
I spilt tea onto it when it was fully turned off. So it should have been fine. No electricity running through it. I left it to dry for 3 days. But... I couldn't remove the battery as Apples a few years ago changed the design of their laptops to uni-bodied kiddie consumer products.
To remove the battery you need to unscrew around 8 screws to get the back plate off the macbook pro, then a further 4 screws on the battery and you need a special screw driver for that, which I didn't have at the time...
So it's apples fault for going too far down the mass consumer route.
I spilt a full cup of tea onto my old macbook a few years ago whilst it was on and plugged in. I unplugged it, and quickly removed the battery. Left it to dry over night and it was fine. Still works, am having to use it now...
- Pro's need tea when designing. Apple should design with that in mind! ha haorpkoobcam2
- aanderton0
^ My advice would be to get a lid for your teacup.
- capn_ron0
I'm seeing a pattern. Maybe it's time to place the cup of tea on another table, or take a tea break away from your computers.
- doesnotexist0
sippy cup!
- orrinward0
2011 Macbook Pro - Revolutionary new Thunderbolt port
2012 Macbook Pro - Revolutionary cupholder
- mg330
Fried? You better eat that shit!
- genfourth0
sucks to hear, but honestly it's not apple's fault. when you spill liquid onto a piece of electronic equipment rarely will it "be fine". and this is the second time it's happened? you got really lucky the first time. I personally don't have glasses of liquid even on the same table as my mbp.
maybe you can buy that ibm laptop that drains liquid out of the keyboard area?
- doesnotexist0
get one of these for your next laptop
