klein2 blog » disassembled http://www.klein2.de Sat, 04 Feb 2012 10:16:53 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The short story about an underwater keyboard http://www.klein2.de/2010/04/13/the-short-story-about-an-underwater-keyboard/ http://www.klein2.de/2010/04/13/the-short-story-about-an-underwater-keyboard/#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2010 07:52:00 +0000 Dennis Klein http://blog.klein2.de/?p=226 Looks like I don’t have much luck nowadays. Yesterday I spilled cold icetea over my MacBook and my external Mac Pro keyboard. Well, ok – Apple replaces the external one (ahem!), but the MacBook repair costs would be 400-500€ regarding to the service provider. Hinted by Constantin to visit ifixit.com, I really found very good instructions to get to the keyboard (and it took me about 45mins).

So I bought distilled water and now the keyboard and the plastic frame which is mounted below the keyboard is taking a bath for a couple of hours. Hopefully it will work, if not, I had ruined a 1.100€ MacBook within a few seconds (it’s the 2008 Unibody Alu version).

For amusement – or shocking – here are 2 pics showing the keyboard in the water.

Press thumbs, guys! :(

Ciao
Dennis 

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