Drink spilled on MacBook Pro about 7 week ago. Help...
Hi everyone,
My friend accidentally spilled a bit of drink on my mbp 13" about 7 weeks ago. We cleaned it up as much as we could, turned it upside down but we didn't switch it off. However a few weeks ago I noticed a few of the top of the keyboards were stiff but worked. I booked a Genius bar appointment just to check it out, just to face a nightmare that the cost is more than getting a new one. I'm just about to start uni and don't have that kind of money. It works perfectly fine besides the few stiff keyboards and it's just over a year old. My questions are do I go on using it since it's still been working since it happened? Or do I go broke trying to replace it? And how long can be estimated before it stops working? Your help would be really appreciated and sorry for lots of questions, Im panicked ...
Mify
Without knowing whether the drink has seeped onto the motherboard, it's impossible to know whether the damage will be limited to the keyboard. You can have the keyboard replaced. But once the drink gets to the motherboard it is a disaster waiting to happen. It could be tomorrow, next month, or next year. And, it could be never.
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