I knocked a glass of water on my bedside table over in my sleep last night. It splashed a bit a across the hinge side a closed case protected
Mac book Air. The poor little sensitive effeminate thing now seems to be shorted. It didn't appear to have any water on it when I moved it to
wipe up the table and when I picked it up to start several hours later. When I opened it and pushed the on button, It just flickered and died.
When I removed the protective shell there was a slight amount of water, talking drops here barely enough moisten a paper towel. I am thinking
the water may have sloshed across the exposed magnetic  power port-a-ma-jig.

I have had it four months and didn't start using the thing in even a periodic fashion until two months ago. I am not in any way attached to it.
I don't really care to go through Apple's service and pay more money to get this delicate piece of industrial art fixed. They will probably require
a payment method to look at it, and then want to charge me half the original price to restore it.

What should I do?

Does anybody here have any experience with the Magical Fairies of Cupertino in regards to repairing a device as expensive and delicate as this
enlarged birth control pill case masquerading as a computer.?

Celebrate, and then go buy a real computer...  

Try to stick it in a bag of rice with the battery removed for a few days if that doesn't work bring it to the Apple store

Macbook air hard drive is a actually a SSD chip. You can pull it and slide it in a new one. It is the biggest pain in the ass of all MAC products to work on... well besides the iMac.

Maybe you only nixed the battery.

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Just did the wifes' and it's working fine. Not a water accident, just started dyng a month ago. 4 yrs old.

Kinda where I am at, but it was a Christmas present.

Wife knew I was in the market  for a new one and 'suprised' me.

What lead her to a Mac? She asked one of her young associates
what's best

What I  had in mind was one of the used Toughbooks Cope's had for awhile for $700 or
a stomping Dell for the price of the Apple

Currently posting on a Toshiba P875-S7102 with the hinges completely cracked free and the display
propped up on  by a throw pillow on an ottoman

So you dumped water on a computer and it's the computer's fault it's broken?

Find out if your wife bought applecare, if she did just take it in and they'll replace it.  If she didn't, you can try the rice trick but you're probably screwed.  Electronics don't like water and it's not a toughbook.

see if it has applecare,  and if not, it's generally not too much to get those fixed, I replaced a whole screen on one for about 150 through apple.  Wasn't terrible.


you might just try letting it dry a couple days and see if it works.  It probably will unless a circuit shorted and cooked on the board, which I sorta doubt.