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Posted by: joshc on 2009-01-09 00:31:00
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!
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Posted by: superpantoufle on 2009-01-09 02:14:03
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! 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!
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Posted by: Christopher on 2009-01-09 07:25:02
You can get macbook's on ebay that have messed up screens, keyboards, even power jacks for around $200.
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Posted by: z180 on 2009-01-09 09:55:29
That is a good reason to drink mineral water or tea.
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Posted by: Christopher on 2009-01-09 10:53:18
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.
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Posted by: joshc on 2009-01-09 11:53:25
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.
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Posted by: Christopher on 2009-01-09 11:58:48
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.
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Posted by: Charlieman on 2009-01-09 12:01:50
That is a good reason to drink mineral water or tea. And thus suffer a joyless life?
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Posted by: joshc on 2009-01-12 09:05:11
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!
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Posted by: Christopher on 2009-01-12 09:11:16
Babysitter failed.
NEVER answer the door.
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Posted by: joshc on 2009-01-12 11:59:47
Babysitter failed.
NEVER answer the door. Babysit often do you? 😛
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Posted by: Christopher on 2009-01-12 14:00:26
No, but my sister does and its just a good rule because what if its a creeper and they rape your or something?
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Posted by: Torbar on 2009-01-12 21:08:01
No, but my sister does and its just a good rule because what if its a creeper and they rape your or something? Someones ringing a doorbell, it must be a rapist!
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Posted by: Phreakinus on 2009-01-12 21:17:55
No, but my sister does and its just a good rule because what if its a creeper and they rape your or something? Someones ringing a doorbell, it must be a rapist!
Yeah. I never answer the door without my shotgun.
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Posted by: Christopher on 2009-01-12 22:12:43
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.
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Posted by: Torbar on 2009-01-13 00:01:08
It's not like a door is gonna stop them.
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Posted by: ChristTrekker on 2009-01-13 07:10:20
It's not like a door is gonna stop them. Phreakinus' shotgun will.
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Posted by: joshc on 2009-01-13 08:19:03
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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