While my laptop has experienced more lives than your average cat, each one progressively more degraded than the last, I was thinking of putting it out of my misery before last night’s incident with the large glass of water spilled all over the keyboard. I turned it off immediately, and let it dry out. A few hours later, I turned it back on, and it was working fine. Then this morning, it was not. The keyboard (not exactly fully functional to begin with) is now well and truly screwed. It may not be permanent, but I honestly really don’t care. iBook, here I come.
I don’t think the hard drive is fux0red, and I’ve found relatively cheap toys on the internet that should allow me to transform it into an external usb drive (which would be pretty rockin’), I just hope it won’t be too much of a pain to get mac to read a true native FreeBSD filesystem (my understanding is that the mac default is incompatible). The spendiness of it all will, of course, be waiting until my student loan comes in. That should be next week, while I’m in DC. No later than the 11th to be precise. Oy. The wireless card, and cardbus ethernet/modem adapter should work fine, but in this day & age, who would need them? Isn’t that essentially built-in for every modern laptop? Still, no reason not to cannibalize the parts and sell them on craigslist. =)
Maybe someone would want the battery, cd drive, lcd screen, and floppy drive, (for a dell latitude CPi) but I’m not holding my breath. =)