few hours at the apple store and the very nice genius-man looked like he was going to cry when he told us that it would be an $800 repair. Minimum. More if that doesn't fix it. So obviously, you have to buy

a new laptop

if you spill a little water. And she's headed back to school in an hour, so it had to be done today. Ouch.

uggggggh

Did you by any chance charge the computer to a credit card that doubles your warranty? A lot of them do nowadays. Amex paid for repairs to my dad's hearing aids recently. Unfortunately, I hadn't on my iMac

that had the display go out recently. So I feel your pain. I bought a new one rather than pay $900 too. The other thing you might consider if you don't get it repaired, the store I bought my new computer from

gave me a pretty good trade in amount for my kaput one. There might be a place near you that would buy it.

I'm always getting the Apple Care now, but it's much more expensive for laptops.

I have an extended warranty on it actually, bought a year and a half ago when we bought the machine, but the warranty doesn't cover water damage.

it's an expensive lesson for her to not drink from a water glass around them in the future

oh wow. I always figured that was why laptop coverage was more. Because people drop them and spill things. That sucks.

this is why i only drink liquids out of special waterbottle things cause i am a clutz and omg that sucks

what about square trade warranty?

www.squaretrade.com/lapt... for the future looks like they cover spills