I’ve bought a tiny little end table for the side of my desk, specifically to avoid this scenario. It is my drink table, and nothing more. No drinks on desk = happy PowerBook.
…but just watch me choke on my coffee one morning and spray the keyboard. That’s the weak link in the chain right now, table-to-mouth liquid movement.
Interesting idea Dave S. How about making this a WP Plugin? He he.
But I actually caught myself doing something I (generally) prode myself on not doing. I was eating biscuits at the computer, and crumbs were getting on / in the keyboard!
I guess there is a good point to make for taking regular coffee / snack / rsi breaks during the use of a PC.
I spilled coffee into one of those Microsoft Office keybords that have the scroll wheel, cut, copy, paste buttons etc – you know the ones that are like more than £50…
When i initially took the thing apart, i though i had been saved – the keyboard seemed to have an additional layer that caught any liquid – a little drying action later i was all smug, but it turned out wasn’t so lucky, and it didn’t work properly
…After that i deemed to never buy an expensive keyboard again!
Getting used to the normal key layout alone was way too much pain, let along the pain to my wallet.
I’ve done that a few times. I ended up missing my glass by 2 inches since I was reading an article. 12 oz of water right on the left side of my powerbook. Worked just fine afterwards.
I still wonder if the right side is vulnerable. It seems like left handed people would hit the right side with drinks more often…
Also, twice on my wireless keyboard. Dave, I’m surprised that the drying didn’t work. I had to dry overnight both times.
Drinking a 96oz+ of water a day might be good for me, but it doesn’t seem to help my electronics very much…
I managed to spill flavoured water over my old 12″ powerbook keyboard, right over it mind, i tipped it on its side (before i turned it off) and tapped it on the desk to get the evil liquid out and aside from being a little sticky for a while it was fine.
I also managed to drop my old 12″ ibook out of a backpack onto a floor and that survived with minor damaged (the little keyboard locking thing came off).
I spilled a glass of champagne on my TiBook keyboard. The computer survived but required professional cleaning. The old keyboard was somewhat sticky, and got very sticky in cool weather. Since I use it often enough that I couldn’t wait for a new keyboard to arrive if the fix didn’t work, I ordered the new keyboard first from ifixit.com, then did the following fix: I filled a standard Pyrex baking dish (9 x 13 inch) with about 1/2 bottle of drugstore isopropyl alcohol (about $1). I then inverted the removed keyboard module so the keys were facing down and worked the key mechanisms en masse in the alcohol by pushing the keyboard back gently up and down with both hands. I was surprised how gunky the alcohol looked after the fix, it removed alot of stuff! I air dried the keyboard for a day, then reinstalled it. Better than new!
A friend at work found out that a Dell Latitude laptop was not immune to a large hot chocolate. Glad your powerbook survived! 🙂
Craig, of course. It’s Apple 😛
(Okay, somewhat biased maybe…)
Matt, one question: have you forgotten that Apple’s beautiful stuff requires care and love? Cause spilling lemonade ain’t one of both, is it?
Yes, I pray to The Almighty Good every day as well.
On a related note, the left side of iBooks are coffee-proof. 🙂
I’ve bought a tiny little end table for the side of my desk, specifically to avoid this scenario. It is my drink table, and nothing more. No drinks on desk = happy PowerBook.
…but just watch me choke on my coffee one morning and spray the keyboard. That’s the weak link in the chain right now, table-to-mouth liquid movement.
Interesting idea Dave S. How about making this a WP Plugin? He he.
But I actually caught myself doing something I (generally) prode myself on not doing. I was eating biscuits at the computer, and crumbs were getting on / in the keyboard!
I guess there is a good point to make for taking regular coffee / snack / rsi breaks during the use of a PC.
I spilled coffee into one of those Microsoft Office keybords that have the scroll wheel, cut, copy, paste buttons etc – you know the ones that are like more than £50…
When i initially took the thing apart, i though i had been saved – the keyboard seemed to have an additional layer that caught any liquid – a little drying action later i was all smug, but it turned out wasn’t so lucky, and it didn’t work properly
…After that i deemed to never buy an expensive keyboard again!
Getting used to the normal key layout alone was way too much pain, let along the pain to my wallet.
I’ve done that a few times. I ended up missing my glass by 2 inches since I was reading an article. 12 oz of water right on the left side of my powerbook. Worked just fine afterwards.
I still wonder if the right side is vulnerable. It seems like left handed people would hit the right side with drinks more often…
Also, twice on my wireless keyboard. Dave, I’m surprised that the drying didn’t work. I had to dry overnight both times.
Drinking a 96oz+ of water a day might be good for me, but it doesn’t seem to help my electronics very much…
huphtur, you’re an ass :-)…
Now I have to leave the typo. :-p
I managed to spill flavoured water over my old 12″ powerbook keyboard, right over it mind, i tipped it on its side (before i turned it off) and tapped it on the desk to get the evil liquid out and aside from being a little sticky for a while it was fine.
I also managed to drop my old 12″ ibook out of a backpack onto a floor and that survived with minor damaged (the little keyboard locking thing came off).
I can add that the right side of my 12″ pb seems to be wine-proof. Thank god it was white. Wouldn’t have wanted red stains on it.
I spilled a glass of champagne on my TiBook keyboard. The computer survived but required professional cleaning. The old keyboard was somewhat sticky, and got very sticky in cool weather. Since I use it often enough that I couldn’t wait for a new keyboard to arrive if the fix didn’t work, I ordered the new keyboard first from ifixit.com, then did the following fix: I filled a standard Pyrex baking dish (9 x 13 inch) with about 1/2 bottle of drugstore isopropyl alcohol (about $1). I then inverted the removed keyboard module so the keys were facing down and worked the key mechanisms en masse in the alcohol by pushing the keyboard back gently up and down with both hands. I was surprised how gunky the alcohol looked after the fix, it removed alot of stuff! I air dried the keyboard for a day, then reinstalled it. Better than new!