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The Official "I spilled liquid in my MacBook, what do I do now?" Thread
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<blockquote data-quote="lopretem" data-source="post: 1736523" data-attributes="member: 384913"><p><strong>it happened.</strong></p><p></p><p>From all the other posts I've read, I know this is an annoying topic...? </p><p> </p><p>Anyway, god help me. I have an early 2015 retina MacBook pro according to my about this mac. And I spilled stuff on it. Iced tea, specifically.... a fair amount of it. It shut down almost immediately, I panicked and flipped it upside down, trying to let it soak into a towel (good). Then I frantically kept trying to turn it on (bad, yes). I even plugged it in to charge it to see if it would turn on (yep). There was some sizzling noises at some point in there.</p><p> </p><p>So I googled it and found it was toast and that I had made some very bad choices. I figured I'd let it dry out for a good 6 days before running over to the Apple store though.</p><p> </p><p>You can imagine my surprise when it turned on... sticky keys and all (liquid was coming out of it for some time, I had to keep rotating it upside down and on its sides to dry) and it seems to be working very smoothly... so what are the chances they won't have to rebuild it almost entirely for like a thousand bucks? could it just be the battery after all that??</p><p> </p><p>only problems I am having is that it needs to be hooked up to the charger to work, if it disconnects or I bump it out it shuts off immediately. The charger also doesn't charge, usually it says 5% but it says 4% right now aaaand went up to 7 the one time. When it shuts down it reopens everything I had open, but won't remember my wifi connection so I assume that's another big problem potentially. I'm obviously macdumb and can't seem to figure out what indicates that I need a new logic board etc, so I am at their mercy in the apple store... just wondering if it sounds super major or possibly salvageable for only a few hundred?</p><p></p><p>i assume i cannot make it worse by using it if it's performing normally other than needing to be plugged in?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="lopretem, post: 1736523, member: 384913"] [b]it happened.[/b] From all the other posts I've read, I know this is an annoying topic...? Anyway, god help me. I have an early 2015 retina MacBook pro according to my about this mac. And I spilled stuff on it. Iced tea, specifically.... a fair amount of it. It shut down almost immediately, I panicked and flipped it upside down, trying to let it soak into a towel (good). Then I frantically kept trying to turn it on (bad, yes). I even plugged it in to charge it to see if it would turn on (yep). There was some sizzling noises at some point in there. So I googled it and found it was toast and that I had made some very bad choices. I figured I'd let it dry out for a good 6 days before running over to the Apple store though. You can imagine my surprise when it turned on... sticky keys and all (liquid was coming out of it for some time, I had to keep rotating it upside down and on its sides to dry) and it seems to be working very smoothly... so what are the chances they won't have to rebuild it almost entirely for like a thousand bucks? could it just be the battery after all that?? only problems I am having is that it needs to be hooked up to the charger to work, if it disconnects or I bump it out it shuts off immediately. The charger also doesn't charge, usually it says 5% but it says 4% right now aaaand went up to 7 the one time. When it shuts down it reopens everything I had open, but won't remember my wifi connection so I assume that's another big problem potentially. I'm obviously macdumb and can't seem to figure out what indicates that I need a new logic board etc, so I am at their mercy in the apple store... just wondering if it sounds super major or possibly salvageable for only a few hundred? i assume i cannot make it worse by using it if it's performing normally other than needing to be plugged in? [/QUOTE]
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