Water spilled on my Mac laptop keyboard
… prompted me to checkout what was inside this cute machine.
A small amount of water spill on the keyboard is not necessarily a cause of concern. If it was some other liquid, I would have headed over to the Mac store and hated myself for the hole in my pocket that this silly accident would have caused. Fortunately, it wasn’t as tricky.
Step one: I disconnected the power supply and switched off the laptop immediately. Then I wiped the keyboard using the shirt I was wearing since it was the quickest thing at hand.
Step two: I removed the battery by unlocking it using a coin (you will see what I mean when you see it). Then I removed the hard drive and the two RAM chips. Instructions are printed in the battery slot.
Step three: Using a very fine Phillips (+) head jeweler’s screwdriver, I undid the screws. There were several of them, I was fascinated with the precision, number and the kinds of screws they used.
Step four: Using an old credit card, I took the upper (keyboard) layer off, revealing the beauty inside. Laptops are delightful, and this Apple is much better than the last HP (windows) laptop that I opened.
Step five: After letting it dry for few hours, I took pictures and assembled everything back. This blog post is a testimony that everything is normal now.
Now that I’ve done this (after owning the laptop for about 2.5 years, what a shame!), I am thinking of upgrading the hard drive to 250 or 500 GB and memory to 3 to 4 GB. It seems quite straightforward.
Cheers!
Geek Alert: There couldn’t have been a geekier title than that. Yes yes, I am a geek and proud of it.
Presenting…
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!Tada!
A brand new look of my website. 
[yay!]
Ok I know, unless you are a first time visitor, that you have probably guessed it already. This is what I call “Version 4.8″ and I hope you like it.
Oh by the way, I also got a MacBook, you know, an Apple Laptop. I got up on Wednesday morning and while biking to work I was mulling over how nothing exciting has happened in the last 2 days. So I decided to make it exciting and what else could be more exciting than spending money on a cute little thing? Clearly, I sound quite excited, but I definitely am excited, and will be until I get the credit card bill. Apple gave away an iPod Touch free with this purchase, so I have more toys to play with. This coincides with the abrupt demise of my older laptop and confirms my final departure from the world of Windows OS. Exciting!
Anyway, back to the website. Thanks everyone who gave me elaborate feedback on how bad the previous version sucked. I’ll dedicate my next glass of Cranberry juice to you (since I gave up on beer). Cheers!
So, does something look different here? Is it better to navigate? Faster? What do you think? Notice a bug? Comments and criticism welcome (but please don’t say something obvious like – “wow the new look is nice!”, I know that already..;) (talk about smartassedness).) I will be tweaking for the next few days.
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