Poor macbook :(

My best friend and our producer, Alex (mansonesque on youtube) gave me his old macbook as he is upgrading. He said to pay him when I could afford it. I cherished it for the 3 days that I had it. But then, in an incident that could not possibly have been avoided, a friend managed to get peach cordial on the keyboard. It switched itself off instantly. I panicked. I grabbed loo roll and wiped it down as best I could, removed the battery and power cord, and angled it so that the liquid could drain. I left it well alone until the next morning when I tried turning it on. Nothing.

Then my girlfriend and I went away for our 5 year anniversary to Cambridge. I brought the macbook with me, and when we got to the hotel, spent a good hour drying it with a hair dryer on cool setting. I tried turning it on again. The screen flickered and the standby light came on. This was at least a start. So I took it to the apple store in Lion Yard and they said there was liquid damage on the logic board. This would apparently cost 450 quid to repair. On top of the 45 pounds they had already charged me to look at it! Unfortunately, due to the fact that it's out of warranty and I have no insurance, I was expected to pay the full fee. Thankfully the person that got the liquid on it offered to pay for it (I said it was an accident, so she insisted on at least paying half) so I won't be totally out of pocket.

Anyway, I'm currently in bed on my brother's laptop at home down south rather than our term time home in Huddersfield. I have searched the internet for mac parts and logic boards vary in price from 300 - 750 pounds. Except for a couple of tested second hand logic boards on eBay from a reputable american Apple parts dealer. One of theirs would set me back 259 pounds (or there abouts). I thought this might be preferable to the grossly overpriced quote from apple, so my dad and I set about carefully removing the top case (which, incidentally is quite simple thanks to Youtube video guides). The water damage was not quite as obvious as the guy in the Apple Store had made out but it was definitely there. So we cleaned it up using dry cotton buds and put it back together. Of course I tested it but to no avail. Now I await christmas money to purchase the part.

Hurrah.