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Today, my daughter spilled orange juice on her Framework laptop. I was able to quickly disconnect the battery, unscrew everything and wipe all the juice. Laptop

by krasin 4y ago

Today, my daughter spilled orange juice on her Framework laptop. I was able to quickly disconnect the battery, unscrew everything and wipe all the juice. Laptop is working fine now, thanks to the Framework design. A stark contrast with an HP laptop that died after the same daughter spilled sweet tea. There was no option for self-repair. It was possible to open the back lid and save the NVME, and that's pretty much it. Framework > HP

noisy_boy 4y ago
> after the same daughter I like your positioning of her being the recurring root cause :)
Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago
You are misattributing the blame and comparing sugar to oranges. Clearly, orange juice is a much more healthy drink, so spilling it results in less severe damage.
- hawski 4y ago
  Isn't an average boxed orange juice as full of sugar as any other beverage?
  - nerdponx 4y ago
    Yes, and even fresh-squeezed orange juice is pretty sugary, not to mention acidic. Maybe if it's super pulpy that could have something to do with slowing down liquid getting into crevices, but I doubt it.
  - cardinalfang 4y ago
    It's full of fructose, which is slightly less viscous than sucrose and therefore healthier for the laptop.
  - mst 4y ago
    American sweet tea is an outlier.
- krasin 4y ago
  It's a feasible hypothesis. But even if it was sweet tea again and some of the components died, I would have been able to replace them individually ([1]), instead of having to buy the whole new laptop. 1. https://frame.work/marketplace https://frame.work/marketplace
- theginger 4y ago
  Orange juice is a very unhealthy choice if you are made from electronics which are quite sensitive to water, sugar and citric acid.
gertrunde 4y ago
I once had a boss spill a banana smoothie/milkshake on a laptop, did much the same, stripped everything apart, washed everything off and left it to dry overnight before putting everything back together. (I remember not being too careful about it - after all, it was the boss's fault, and they can just get a new one if it's broken). Surprisingly it all worked fine, apart from one thing... when attending meetings, they would turn the laptop ion at the start, and after about half an hour, someone would usually ask "Can anyone else smell banana?" (I can't remember the model, but I think it was a small (like 10-12" or so) HP with an extremely slow, awful hard disk, maybe 1.8").

by krasin 4y ago

noisy_boy 4y ago

> after the same daughter I like your positioning of her being the recurring root cause :)

Andrew_nenakhov 4y ago

You are misattributing the blame and comparing sugar to oranges. Clearly, orange juice is a much more healthy drink, so spilling it results in less severe damage.

hawski 4y ago
Isn't an average boxed orange juice as full of sugar as any other beverage?
- nerdponx 4y ago
  Yes, and even fresh-squeezed orange juice is pretty sugary, not to mention acidic. Maybe if it's super pulpy that could have something to do with slowing down liquid getting into crevices, but I doubt it.
- cardinalfang 4y ago
  It's full of fructose, which is slightly less viscous than sucrose and therefore healthier for the laptop.
- mst 4y ago
  American sweet tea is an outlier.
krasin 4y ago
It's a feasible hypothesis. But even if it was sweet tea again and some of the components died, I would have been able to replace them individually ([1]), instead of having to buy the whole new laptop. 1. https://frame.work/marketplace https://frame.work/marketplace
theginger 4y ago
Orange juice is a very unhealthy choice if you are made from electronics which are quite sensitive to water, sugar and citric acid.

gertrunde 4y ago

I once had a boss spill a banana smoothie/milkshake on a laptop, did much the same, stripped everything apart, washed everything off and left it to dry overnight before putting everything back together. (I remember not being too careful about it - after all, it was the boss's fault, and they can just get a new one if it's broken). Surprisingly it all worked fine, apart from one thing... when attending meetings, they would turn the laptop ion at the start, and after about half an hour, someone would usually ask "Can anyone else smell banana?" (I can't remember the model, but I think it was a small (like 10-12" or so) HP with an extremely slow, awful hard disk, maybe 1.8").