Frankie Moves: Fourth Time's a Charm?

You all already know what happened, but let's go back in time for a second and do some build up.

In 2003, I departed to university with this beast:

Or something along those lines... I don't actually remember the model, but it was a huge Dell Laptop that I had no desire to cart to class. I think it also had a hefty price tag since it was loaded with everything that you could get in 2003. DVD burner anyone? Honestly, I don't know why I thought I needed that stuff.

Then one day while doing who knows what at my desk, I dumped a bottle of Diet Coke on that sucker. Luckily it dried up, got all fixed, and lived a decent life when I wasn't yelling profanities at it for being huge and clunky and slow.

When I left for physio school, I decided to upgrade with my first Mac. The very stylish black Macbook that was just a little bit better than the white ones, but not quite as expensive as the Pros at that point.

Picture this: It's May 2-4 weekend and the library is closed because, well, it's a long weekend for 90% of everyone else in Canada, but not for us poor physio kids. I was working away at my dining room table on my large cumulative project (change of environment?) with a nice cold glass of water instead of my normal bottle. You know what happened. Luckily, she revived herself and was good to go. (Though I needed a new logic board a little later but it ended up being covered).

Until 6 months later when my screen started acting up. I took it into Apple and they said to replace the hard drive (which I paid for since it was out of warranty by this point). It didn't work. I took it back in and then they told me that it was the logic board (again) and that it was due to water damage. Conceding defeat, I ended up with a Macbook Pro.

I loved my Pro and treated her well. She was just over 3 years old when I royally effed her up yesterday.

I had a bottle of acu disinfectant in my bag to take to work and my Mac.... I noticed halfway that my leg felt odd but didn't think anything of it until I got to work and tried to figure out why my leg was soaked. Took a sec and then.... oh noooooooo. The bottle had completely dumped in my bag which meant that my laptop (which was on) had been sitting in basically water for at least 5 minutes.

I knew from the moment I picked her up and water poured out she was dead. But Greg took her apart and let her dry in front of a fan over night. We tried to turn her on this morning but no luck. You could see what was corroded. It just wasn't worth the salvage.

R.I.P. Pretty Macbook Pro. I love you.

On to the new 13" Retina Display Macbook Pro. There was a debate of which model I was going to get... but as soon as I saw this one I couldn't go back to the standard Pro.