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I once put rubbing alcohol on a cloth to clean an apple laptop keyboard. The laptop is in my closet now. I dropped my low grade Costco dell laptop from chest h

I once put rubbing alcohol on a cloth to clean an apple laptop keyboard. The laptop is in my closet now. I dropped my low grade Costco dell laptop from chest height. It cracked the cover on the screen and has a piece of plastic missing, exposing wires. It is still 100% functional for two years since.

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housemusicfan 3y ago
I once had a single drop of water, condensation on the outside of a glass - think the drop of sweat scene in Mission Impossible with Tom Cruise, fall into the gap between the trackpad and the palm rest on a MacBook Pro. Instantly fried the trackpad, which never worked again until I had it replaced.
- talldatethrow 3y ago
  Lol. Sorry for your loss, but just lol. The performance difference I see from the OS on my friends computers really makes me want to get an Apple computer. Hearing these horror stories always scares me straight.
  - pmontra 3y ago
    What is a performance difference at OS level?
    - talldatethrow 3y ago
      My decently specd windows laptop, without any insane applications installed beyond work related.. chugs along for the first 1-2 minutes on startup even once technically booted into Windows. Opening chrome takes like 10 seconds for the first site to load after double clicking. A poorly written svg animation or something of that type on a web page will bring scrolling to a grind. Clicking a stupid link that opens a modal in HubSpot makes the modal open slowly at 4 fps. Facebook marketplace messages bring it to it's knees. This itself has to be a Facebook bug of some kind but w.t.f. Little examples like that. The cpu is fine, enough memory, solid state drive, all that. Something is just off. It's honestly just crippled by windows I think.
      - wwtrv 3y ago
        > chugs along for the first 1-2 minutes on startup even once technically booted into Windows. > Opening chrome takes like 10 seconds for the first site to load after double clicking. Seems like there must be some problem with your system.
        talldatethrow 3y ago
        Even if that was true, that is still an OS problem that allows an experienced user to get a system to that stage unintentionally with no obvious cause or way to stop it.
        dotnet00 3y ago
        Apple machines aren't somehow immune to developing errors like that. All it takes is the "experienced" user doing something atypical sometime and not remembering what they did to be able to revert it.

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housemusicfan 3y ago

I once had a single drop of water, condensation on the outside of a glass - think the drop of sweat scene in Mission Impossible with Tom Cruise, fall into the gap between the trackpad and the palm rest on a MacBook Pro. Instantly fried the trackpad, which never worked again until I had it replaced.

talldatethrow 3y ago
Lol. Sorry for your loss, but just lol. The performance difference I see from the OS on my friends computers really makes me want to get an Apple computer. Hearing these horror stories always scares me straight.
- pmontra 3y ago
  What is a performance difference at OS level?
  - talldatethrow 3y ago
    My decently specd windows laptop, without any insane applications installed beyond work related.. chugs along for the first 1-2 minutes on startup even once technically booted into Windows. Opening chrome takes like 10 seconds for the first site to load after double clicking. A poorly written svg animation or something of that type on a web page will bring scrolling to a grind. Clicking a stupid link that opens a modal in HubSpot makes the modal open slowly at 4 fps. Facebook marketplace messages bring it to it's knees. This itself has to be a Facebook bug of some kind but w.t.f. Little examples like that. The cpu is fine, enough memory, solid state drive, all that. Something is just off. It's honestly just crippled by windows I think.
    - wwtrv 3y ago
      > chugs along for the first 1-2 minutes on startup even once technically booted into Windows. > Opening chrome takes like 10 seconds for the first site to load after double clicking. Seems like there must be some problem with your system.
      - talldatethrow 3y ago
        Even if that was true, that is still an OS problem that allows an experienced user to get a system to that stage unintentionally with no obvious cause or way to stop it.
        dotnet00 3y ago
        Apple machines aren't somehow immune to developing errors like that. All it takes is the "experienced" user doing something atypical sometime and not remembering what they did to be able to revert it.