I'm going to blame Sonic and their goddamned thin-as-fuck Route 44 styrofoam cups.
Last night I went to pick my drink up. As has happened a dozen times before, the top came loose, my thumb went through the side of the cup, and 44 ounces of iced tea exploded. Unfortunately this time, it exploded over my open and powered on Macbook.
I suppose I've been lucky. I've been a laptop user going on nearly ten years now and have never had an accident like this.
I immediately powered it down, drained the liquid out and removed the back.I propped it up in front of a desk fan overnight, hoping against all odds that I got it turned off quickly enough. Apparently I didn't. This morning it's completely dead.
So tomorrow night it's off to the Apple store and probably a thousand dollar repair, since I can't afford to buy a new one.
In the meantime I thankfully have Ben's old 2010 Macbook to use. It has no battery, it's got half the RAM and hard drive capacity of my machine, but at least it will get me through until mine is repaired. I was amazed that when I went to do Internet Recovery it actually loaded (and is running) Sierra. My most recent Time Machine backup was yesterday morning, so I really didn't lose much of anything, but I wasn't able to restore iTunes (too big for the size of this hard drive), and I'm belatedly discovering that not all settings get transferred when doing anything other than a complete restore.
well FUCK! 🙁
I had a very expensive iMac once, for about 2 years, and it worked well… until I noticed a line running down the right side of the screen. I called Apple's IT and the, tech who linked in, told me I was watching my very expensive hard drive crash… and, of course, it was out warranty and as a result turned into a $2300 anchor. I went out and bought a Cyber Power Gaming computer. No more Apple for me.
Any interest in. 2 yo iMac – used less than 50 hrs? I'll have the specs when I get home later.
Thanks, but that's kind of hard to stuff in my backpack. ?