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Free MacBook

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joshc

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Going to be collecting an older MacBook for FREE.

Here's the catch: "...the hard drive and processor are fried due to a spill of wine..."

I can get a new hard drive cheap, and try giving the mobo a wash perhaps? (not sure, heard lots about washing older mobos, but I'm not sure about new ones, especially laptop ones.)

I'll have a better idea when I actually have it, but it sounds like I can get this working without too much trouble/cost. w00t!

 
I'll have a better idea when I actually have it, but it sounds like I can get this working without too much trouble/cost. w00t!
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Would be a great conquest, indeed! But I wouldn't be too optimistic before having seen it. The drive is for sure easily replacable. But the mobo… if it's actually fried, i. e. heavily short-circuited, I don't think that a simple washing will be be enough. You may be better starting o look for a cheap dead MacBook whoose mobo is ok, in order to switch them!

Anyway good luck, and let's hope you're right!

 
This is why I use a desktop keyboard around my computers, keyboards are not a big deal if they wet themselves. For future, get a keyboard condem, iSkin makes good ones.

 
I only ever drink water (except for my morning drink of orange or whatever) -- but I have never spilled anything into a keyboard, so hurray for me.

I will probably have to buy a spares macbook and make a working machine out of the two.

 
The first and only time I have spilled something was on my iBook G3 THREE DAYS after I got it. It was a New Years Eve party at one of my other churches plants and I wasn't watching because it was a really nutty that night in terms of sound production and i knocked a cup of soda all over the keyboard, luckily my spazlike speed managed to keep anything from getting into the important parts.

 
Well, didn't get the MacBook. Story goes like this: Got there, after 40 minutes of driving in reasonably heavy traffic, knocked on the door, and a woman claiming to be the baby sitter answered. she didn't know anything about the macbook, and said that the woman's mom had been rushed into hospital, so she was at the hospital and didn't want to call her. so i got back in the car, mom told me to go back and ask the baby sitter to ring the woman. So i did, she called the woman, and it was on voicemail - and then she got funny with me, said the only macbook she knows of is a working one - but then she said she doesn't even know where it is (?), and then she said "i didn't really want to call her, i'm really going to have to ask you to leave now"...

If the story the baby sitter was telling is true, then I suppose I cannot be too annoyed. But I have a feeling something was dodgy (oh, and yes, it was the right house.) Oh well, perhaps it was "too good to be true" in the first place!

 
You don't get it. You shouldn't answer the door unless they homeowner tells you to... its just a dangerous thing because your in charge of kids.

 
Alas, this is the UK where we do not all have guns. heavymetal4god is on the right track - the babysitter shouldn't be answering the door unless the homeowner gave her permission to do so. At any rate, still no email from the woman, so god knows what was going on. :-/

 
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