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It doesn't even have to be waterproof to prevent 99% water damage cases. It just needs to be water resistant against liquid pours from the top, like how a car c
by httpz 3y ago
It doesn't even have to be waterproof to prevent 99% water damage cases. It just needs to be water resistant against liquid pours from the top, like how a car can withstand rain.
- millzlane 3y agoMost of the liquid spills I see are from people carrying water bottles in their bags with the laptop.
- jansimonek 3y agoYup, just happened to me yesterday. I was in a hurry and didn’t screw lid of a coffee thermos correctly. Luckily the mac seems to have survived.
- chris_wot 3y agoI can confirm. I work at a school with a massive fleet of Macs. The kids generally kill their devices with water by keeping their water bottle in the same bag as their MacBook. Doesn’t matter how often I tell them not to, they insist on doing this.
- Someone 3y agoWhat do you expect them to do instead? Carry two bags? Keep the bottle in their hand at all times? I think both are highly inconvenient. There are backpacks with bottle holders on the outside, but in my experience, those aren’t very good at holding a bottle. Not bringing a bottle probably is the best option, but that may not be a good option in very hot climates.
- chris_wot 3y agoYes. The risk of a water bottle opening in a student’s bag and ruining a laptop, causing a very expensive repair is worse than the inconvenience of keeping the bottle outside of their bag. How would you avoid water damage due to the scenario? Or do you consider it normal and unavoidable?
- hutzlibu 3y agoWhat also works, is developing a habit of double checking bottles in your bag - as spilled liquids are never nice in your stuff. And some backpacks actually have working bottle holders on the outside ...
- dathinab 3y agoI seem to be an outlier. Most of my cases where me toppling over some classes or bottles in a way where the liquid ended up directly on the open laptop. On the other hand in my bag I normally have the Laptop in an additional sleeve, sometimes a double one, so any case where liquid ended up spilling in my backpack it at most lead to a slightly damp laptop due to the sleeves getting wet but nothing which causes water damage. As a side note if used correctly a simple plastic bag (like a thing plastic shopping bag) as an additional sleeve around you laptop sleeve can be a trivial cheap way to get a surprising amount of waterproofing a laptop in a backpack. I don't do this on a daily basis but when traveling or similar I always hope to not forget to do it.