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[waynestewart]

A friend was watering her outdoor plants and forgot she'd brought out her Macbook Air and gave it a good watering. When she gave it to me as dead, the light on the power cable wouldn't even come on. I let it sit for a week and tried it and it started charging and booted but said the wireless hardware wasn't installed. Today I was going to take it to the Apple store to maybe get the Airport card replaced. Booted it first and now the Airport card is functioning again. So tomorrow I return it to my friend

 

[Macdrone]

Good show, glad you helped your friend.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Very comrade. :approve:

 

[Schmoburger]

Jolly good show!

 

[RickNel]

Tell her you fixed it using your psychic powers. Just waiting for it to dry out doesn't sound so expert (but it does indicate maturity - I have known people to put an axe through a laptop just because it was wet and wouldn't boot...)

Rick

 

[waynestewart]

Told her I did a rain dance around her computer in the nude. She asked me why I didn't ask her to join me.

It gets scarry sometimes around here

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

You need to dance to get it to rain in Vancouver? :?:

 

[waynestewart]

Seems like you do this summer. I think it's been 5 or 6 weeks without any rain. The lawn's totally yellow and with water restrictions I can only water it between 1am and 6am. That isn't going to happen

 

[volvo242gt]

Yup, it's been pretty dry. Not very hot, but it has been dry. Might have some thunderstorms flaring up in a couple days here in the PacNW, then, supposedly some rain on Friday.

-J

 

[TheMacGuy]

I was actually very surprised last week. It rained not once, but twice. I have not seen it rain in Southern California during the summer in years. Really put a damper on plans.

 

[Schmoburger]

*Cue that song*

 

[olePigeon]

Some good advice, by the way, is to stick it into a bag with some rice. The rice will suck up the moisture a lot faster than just letting it air dry.

 

[TheMacGuy]

stick it into a bag with some rice.

This has worked for me before on an old Moto Razr. My mother dropped it in the toilet.

 

[Paralel]

Even better, a small container filled with unused silica gel packets. The desiccant power of silica gel is far greater than that of rice, and the packets are very cheap.