Don't drink and compute

[Anthony Martinez]

Well folks, I did a terrible thing last week. I spilled a beer. As if wasting one of the best beers out there (Real Ale Devil's Backbone) wasn't bad enough, I happened to spill about the final quarter of a pint into my 15" MacBook Pro. The MBP couldn't handle its booze.

As luck would have it, I liked the beer - and the complimentary Real Ale Fireman's 4 glass (it was pint-glass night, as Mondays are, at The Ginger Man in Austin) - and took a photo of it before I did the unthinkable.





If you do not backup religiously, you should. Had I not had a backup, I'd have lost final photos from two different weddings. All of this prompted me to spring for a 24" iMac on which my business work would remain relatively safe from such incidents. With the announcement of 13" MacBook Pros I may end up getting one of those soonish and transplanting the dead 15"'s 320GB drive and 4GB of RAM. I don't need discrete graphics for the work I do, and the 13" is a better fit for portability than the 15" or the 17".

[inkvisitor]

Yow!

I guess it's better than spilling a Busch Light on it, though

[snydersnapshots]

I'll bet that is about the most expensive beer you've ever drank!

[Redneck]

To me, as a German, it looks more like lemonade.

[srwatters]

Und was ist mit einem Weizenbier falsch?

[Redneck]

Weizenbier war auch mein erster Gedanke, aber es sieht trotzdem noch sehr "orange" aus. Cheers, ich meine Prost!

[srwatters]

Ich bin mich über die Farbe einig. Sie schaut ungefiltert, die das Beste ist!

Prost!

[Anthony Martinez]

Originally Posted by snydersnapshots

I'll bet that is about the most expensive beer you've ever drank!

I didn't even pay for the beer (I tend to drink free there).