Spilt Coke on MBA 11". Potential harm?

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I accidentally spilt some coke on the left side of the keyboard 2 months ago. I quickly turned it upside down and tried my best to clean the coke externally. It works perfectly well after that until now, no sign of liquid damage except for some sticky keys. Does it mean that the coke didn't get into the logic board under the keyboard? Is there any possibility that my MBA just dies up one day without any signs? I'm praying hard now
 

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Does it mean that the coke didn't get into the logic board under the keyboard? Is there any possibility that my MBA just dies up one day without any signs? I'm praying hard now

It is what it is. We know even less than you...since we cannot see, hear, touch, or smell your computer. Whether something will or won't go wrong...is difficult to predict.

Hopefully you've stopped drinking liquids around your computer!:)

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Have a good read of this Sticky, http://www.mac-forums.com/forums/apple-notebooks/271875-official-i-spilled-liquid-my-macbook-what-do-i-do-now-thread.html but long story short Liquid + Electronics = Eventual Death.
You might not see anything wrong now or in the very near future, but at the end of the day, the little liquid that did get through, would of already started the corrosion process. I have seen plenty of threads that start out like this, and anywhere between the day the thread is posted, and up to 12 months after, people always come back saying their Mac has just died.
it is inevitable unfortunately.
 
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That delay in problems occurring is so typical of corrosion damage to the logic board taking weeks to emerge alas. Liquids, and coke in particular, plus electronics = death.
 

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