liquid damage
They don't like getting wet!
Liquid damage
If your Mac gets wet, putting it in a box of rice is not going to help; most Macs will actually continue to work after a spill (if it wasn’t directly shorted during the spill), but it won’t last long. Once wet, although it may still turn on, the logic board inside the Mac will start to corrode. This corrosion is conductive and will eventually short out components and damage the board.
Cleaning the board after a spill is a cheap repair. I can pass the board through my ultrasonic cleaner to prevent corrosion.
A corrosion-damaged board is also repairable, but it will be a more expensive repair.
The cost of liquid damage repair is different for every job depending on the severity and what parts are damaged. The sooner I see it, the greater the chance of success.
Here is a video of me using the amazing Ultrasonic cleaner machine. With specialist fluids, the Ultrasonic is a noisy little beast but has saved countless devices over the years and can remove any liquid damage or corrosion from a board, giving it a new lease of life.
The sound in the video gets very loud and distorted due to the noise the machine makes.
Liquid spills is such an in depth subject for way more information with photos and videos of how liquid can affect your Macbook see the following link that will take you to a great in depth page about liquid spills on the iFixit website.
