
With a clumsy swing my colleague knocks over my starbuck tumbler and down goes a few ounces of my newly brewed cafe mocha onto my laptop. The entire laptop was still running and we got the keyboards dried. I shut it down and continue to clean it up. The keys were so tight that the under part were shining with coffee and I could not reach it. I took the laptop down to the tech support and got it opened up. There were still seepage of coffee on the DVD Rom and some of the internal parts. I was expecting a total water proof, but it seams that there are opportunity for the liquids to seep through. We tissued the entire machine up and put it back together. Works like a charm, well, for a few hours at least till the keyboards become sticky, and every keystrokes were a dreaded moment. And now, the backspace key has decided to pack up and stop functioning. I had to rely on the Del button to correct errors, something that bugs the hell out of me. Have to see the tech dude first thing tomorrow morning. Morale of the story, no matter how advance laptops have become, liquid is something that must be kept far away, and boy, I have come to realize that I have been using the backspace button so often, especially on correcting typing errors. There hardly any sentence that goes by without the use of it. Sign of rooms of improvements on the typing efficiency.
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Probably should get yourself an external keyboard just in case things turn for the worse tomorrow. Good luck.
By Hin Ching on 04.02.08 10:31 pm | Permalink
Thanks, I already have an external keyboard in the office, its just that next week, I will be travelling, this is when the trouble begins…
By kew on 04.02.08 10:34 pm | Permalink