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>>952704 (OP)

Because it isn't made by apple.

>Spend $3000 to buy a fagbook (or some other craptop)

>Spill your Soy Cuckatte on your keyboard

>Cry since warranty doesn't cover it.

Why can't people spend an additional 10 seconds to wave their magic wand over their spilled beverage and make it disappear? As a magician I'm continually perplexed by this.

>>952707

So? Buy a 3rd party cover.

Laptops are honestly terrible; mobile computing was a mistake. I had to service the computer my father bought recently -- to my horror, everything was soldered, and the HDD was screwed in a strange cage, making it a Sisyphean task to remove. It also barely had any ports. They wouldn't be doing that if laptops didn't normalize it.

I have a relative that had a first generation macbook air and kept it in an expensive thick transparent protective plastic case to for the resale value. Also keeps a Power Macintosh 7300 thinking it might be worth something one day.

Ended up getting mad and snapped the macbook in half. Only uses an iphone and ipad now.

>>952710

I don't give a damn.

But applefags do.

I once spilled a giant glass of bourbon onto my laptop like 6 years ago. I just held the power button until it turned off then waited until the next day and took it apart and cleaned the keyboard and the surface of the motherboard with isopropanol until it was clean, then put it back together. It powered back on and still works to this day. Spilling shit on electronics isn't that big a deal so long as you take the time to clean that shit off.

>>952704 (OP)

Anon, these retards are already so careless that they even risk a machine they paid thousands for to begin with. They're just not smart

>>952711

Then create modular laptops like Toughbooks

>>952704 (OP)

Dear Mr Technician,

Why aren't people buying old laptops, switching out the HDD for an SSD, then installing Linux?

Sincerely,

Anon

>Spend $3000 to buy a fagbook (or some other craptop)

>Spill your Soy Cuckatte on your keyboard

>Cry since warranty doesn't cover it.

Why can't people spend an additional 10 seconds to post this on /g/ instead on /tech/ and make make life easier for everyone? As a sane person I'm continually perplexed by this.

>>952704 (OP)

Keyboard covers on a mac can actually make them overheat. It's a shitty design to pull air though the cracks in the keyboard, but they do it. Macs in the past few years have really had a shit ton of overheating problems. Look at the new i9 macs. Those things have to throttle themselves to keep from bursting into flame like Elton John at a Boy George concert.

Those things feel like dry condoms and collect way more dirt and bullshit than the unibody by itself.

I bet you put plastic on your couches too

>laptops not having drains incase of spillage in 2018

This shit was fixed years ago!

There shouldn't even be a reason to get covers.

>>952865

But anon that will make the laptop 1mm thicker! Where are your priorities?!

>Why can't people spend an additional $10 to buy a keyboard cover? As a technician I'm continually perplexed by this.

Or just spend an additional time finishing the Soy Cuckatte or getting a separate coffee table alike.

The problem usually is the keyboard dying off because of the moist oxidizing the somewhat trashy lead flex pins. Easy to fix it though.

>>952704 (OP)

>keyboard cover

yikes. just get a thinkpad

>people still don't understand that spilling shit on laptop is literal meme of tech repair world

Worked at repair shop for 6 months. Literally 30 mins of work to repair shit like spilled cola or spilled semen on PC.

It's just the fucking sugar and other minerals that formed on mobo that short some circuits (possibly even destroying few chips).

In most cases you can just drench that shit in 90% alchohol and clean it off. Other time you would have to change a voltage regulation chip or something.

[spoiler]okay, a little story time

>cunt comes in repair shop

>young me, still fresh at job

>"hello, I will need you to upgrade my RAM"

<"Okay?"

>"Yea, here is my PC and RAM I bought, just install it and upgrade it"

>dafug.jpg

>somebody must have said to this dumb cunt that RAM speeds up her PC because she probably installed 20 addon toolbars to her internet explorer or some shit

>boss sees this and runs over, not wasting opportunity

<"No worries maam, come in 30 minutes"

>she walks away

>he jams the RAM in behind the counter

>cunt comes back

<Boss: "That will be 40$"

And I am just standing there smilling like an idiot watching the world burn

[/spoiler]

>thread talking about how Mac hardware is shit

Surprised no one has posted any Louis Rossmann videos yet, the guy is a repair tech who shits all over Apple because he spends most of his day fixing issues caused by Apples incompetence when it comes to designing hardware, their shitty attitude towards their customers, and the cult of Apple which lets them get away with it all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUaJ8pDlxi8

>>952888

Nothing wrong with that.

The customer agreed with the price and your boss has mouths to feed. OK OK

>>952893

Watched a few vids of his and I think he really knows his stuff.

>>952893

The worst part of the new macbooks is that they get completely fucking destroyed by a single spec of dust underneath their shit tier keyboards. You need a keyboard protector to keep fucking DUST out of the faggot now, not just liquid. My company is forcing everybody to switch to them and I've already had two coworkers with multiple broken keys because of nothing but dust.

>>952845

Ironic considering the whole casing is aluminum and thus one giant heatsink.

>>952708

This, anyone unironically making mistakes in 2018 needs to kys

>>952893

>Louis Rossmann videos

I was thinking of this video of his when I saw this thread:

IS IT SPILL PROOF? Lenovo Thinkpad P50 review + waterboarding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig3xI8dUdm0

Waterboarding at 27:22 (or link for the lazy https://youtu.be/ig3xI8dUdm0?t=1642)

>>952704 (OP)

>water near computer

>water sneaks under the plastic condom you put on your keys

Keyboard covers feel/look awful and don't do anything.

>>952704 (OP)

Just buy a Thinkpad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig3xI8dUdm0

>>952711

the problem is that apple is in total control of the mobile computing industry and everyone is following their leave

apple products are only tools secondarily though, they are primarily fashion statements, and because of that apple is obsessed with making them as fashionable as possible. Apple's goal is the elimination of all screws and physical ports, which is why the iPhone 8 and onward don't even have something as basic as a headphone jack

>>954015

>fashion statements

Some people like the brand, but that doesn't mean it's just a "fashion statement".

>>952711

https://youtu.be/XIJWfXfGI4o

>Zoomer only knows nuLaptops

>>954015

the problem is that Sennheiser is in total control of the mobile sound industry and everyone is following their leave

Sennheiser products are only tools secondarily though, they are primarily fashion statements, and because of that Sennheiser is obsessed with making them as fashionable as possible.

>Apple's goal is the elimination of all screws and physical ports, which is why the iPhone 8 and onward don't even have something as basic as a headphone jack

That's true. They want to make everything paper-thin because these jews think that's what people want. They've been planning Credit card-sized full-fledged phones since 2002 or so, Microsoft has patents for it. I personally will never EVER purchase a computer with no ethernet port.

Apple REALLY should have kept Ethernet, maglev and maybe a couple USBs on their macbooks. Removing the phone headphone jack too was completely retarded. Jobs added USB alongside Firewire because they needed USB support, he would never let this shit happen even at the expense of their own standard.

>>953936

The best thing is the follow up video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZiSxPvuPLc