I brought a macbook pro for school through my job and one month into owning the laptop a freak accident happened causing a splash of green tea to spill on the computer (i was in the library working on my midterm and someone banged into the table causing my cup to tip over
)
i immediately tipped it upside down and let it power off. I let it dry out for about 4 days. When I resumed using it, it worked fine for another two months. Then one day it wouldn't boot up. I didn't know if the problem was from the spill or something else so I brought it to be serviced through apple care. They rejected fixing it saying they found a "splash" of liquid in the laptop. When I saw the pictorial evidence they sent back I couldn't
enough cause it was literally one dried droplet in there, nothing else
(sucks for me)
So I was told in order to get it fixed it would cost about $1100. But the tech person not to pay for it to be fixed because it's not "cost effective". Instead he said to sell my current one for parts and buy a new one.
Problem is a new one is going to cost another $1600+ which I'm not sure I can even swing again. Fixing it costs $1100. I would sell the current for parts but I wanted to remove my personal info from it before I sell it, but since the computer will not boot up, I'm not sure if that is possible. Furthermore all the macbooks i've seen going for parts are barely getting $300. It seems like a lose-lose situation.
So for those that had liquid damage what did you do? Any suggestions you can give other than what I posted?
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