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He mentioned that the reason he didn't do that was to avoid voiding the warranty.
by Qz 17y ago
He mentioned that the reason he didn't do that was to avoid voiding the warranty.
- dustingetz 17y agoi'd be shocked if refrigerating it didn't
- Qz 17y agoIf it hadn't worked, he may not have posted about it, and then no one would know that it had been in the fridge...
- ugh 17y agoIf you manage to get the temperature in your fridge up to 10°C you are good[1]. [1] http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html
- Retric 17y ago# Operating temperature: 50° to 95° F (10° to 35° C) # Storage temperature: -13° to 113° F (-24° to 45° C) 10C not all that cold for a refrigerator but -24C is hard to reach.
- mattmaroon 17y agoThat's pretty easy really. It's usually around 35-40 F, 10C is 50F, so just leaving your door cracked will probably accomplish that. In fact I suspect the Macbook's own heat would keep it above that while copying the files.
- a-priori 17y agoEspecially, if you post pictures of the deed to your blog and it shows up on Hacker News! :)
- pasbesoin 17y agoSorry, I accidentally hit the down arrow on your comment when I meant to hit the "reply" link. :-( Could someone reverse my mistake? The parent comment does not deserve downmodding.
- ryanjmo 17y agoThe difference is here, that you can tell if something has been opened, but it is nearly impossible to tell if something has been 'friged.' Apple can only void your warranty if they can catch you. And please don't mention that he 'posted on the internet' so the Apple store will catch him; we all know the prob of that is zeroish. So, I think it is safe to say for all intents and purposes refrigerating your computer doesn't void your warranty.
- jackowayed 17y agoWell, if there's enough condensation, they might catch you. Do laptops have the water-damage-sensing things that they put in cell phones? The ones that permanently change color when they get wet so that they know that the phone got wet?
- BrandonM 17y agoDon't refrigerators and freezers have lower-than-normal condensation? Put a loaf of bread or cookies in the refrigerator and they will be dry by the end of the day.
- stan_rogers 17y agoCondensation happens when the article is reintroduced to a warm, damp environment -- ask anyone who wears glasses in winter. Photographers will often put cold-soaked bodies and lenses into ziploc bags before going indoors after an outdoor shoot in winter, maintaining the low-humidity environment until the equipment has reached room temperature. [EDIT: spelling and capitalisation]
- duck 17y ago> Do laptops have the water-damage-sensing things that they put in cell phones? No.
- callahad 17y agoI'm not sure about Powerbooks, but even in unibody Macbook Pros, both the HD and RAM are considered user-serviceable without voiding the warranty. There's an entire section of the manual dedicated to swapping them.
- martey 17y agoThe hard drives in aluminum PowerBooks, older MacBook Pros, and virtually every other Apple laptop except the MacBooks and unibody MacBook Pros are not user-serviceable.
- blasdel 17y agoThey aren't easy to get to: it takes a couple hours and ~50 screws to swap the drive in my 12" Powerbook — but it doesn't violate the warranty to do so. They probably wouldn't have covered it if you obviously fucked it up while taking it apart, but there was never anti-tamper tape or anything in there to directly detect that you'd done so.
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- metamemetics 17y agoI had a dell where the power connector socket went bad, it would literally smoke if you tried to plug power into it to charge it. I took the hard drive out and shipped it back driveless without any problems. Got a newer model replacement laptop and a free external (well, $15 enclosure) for the inconvenience of using my desktop for a week.