[plug] Fluid damage to Laptop

[Matt Kemner]

On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, quoth Jonathan Young:

> This week I am looking at a laptop which has been potentially damaged by
> fluid ingression.
[...]
> It is a Toshiba laptop and won't be cheap to replace.

The only thing I wish to add to the excellent advice already posted on
this subject, is that most Toshiba laptops now include a "spill tray"
underneath the keyboard to protect the mainboard & other expensive
internal components against exactly this kind of thing - so your client
may have gotten away with no major damage - other than perhaps the speaker
& keyboard itself, which are by comparison not as expensive to replace.

My Libretto apparently also contains "crumple zones" which are designed to
take the impact in a fall, and once again protect the sensitive internal
components.  I'm not keen to try that one out either though ;)

Kind Regards,

 - Matt Kemner
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