Over the years, Apple has increasingly put more and more moisture sensors inside their laptops: little stickers that tell Apple Geniuses when a device has been exposed to liquid, useful for denying you warranty coverage for the iPhone you dropped in the toilet, or the MacBook you spilled a beer on top of.
No surprise, then, that the Retina MacBook Pro has moisture sensors inside the chassis, but what is more surprising is how many it has: ten in total, two more than the MacBook Pro and MacBook Air.
I suppose it makes sense: the Retina MacBook Pro is an expensive piece of kit, and Apple doesn’t want to have to replace any more than they need to. You may want to watch out for your drool hitting the keyboard when you first check out that Retina display, though: Apple’s not going to fix that.
Source: Hardmac
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
6 responses to “Apple Really Doesn’t Want To Repair Your Moist Retina MacBook Pro”
These stickers tend to be too sensitive. In Florida, the air is humid enough to turn them pink without going anywhere near water.
Don’t say “kit.” It sounds stupid when Americans say British things. That goes for “bollocks” and “Bloody” and “Cheers mate” as well.
guess you haven’t been around that long or you would know that John isn’t American. which is why he says things like kit
that’s they don’t go off it being pink but being screaming red, especially when they all are and there’s rust etc on the electronics.
that’s they don’t go off it being pink but being screaming red, especially when they all are and there’s rust etc on the electronics.
Well, if there was rust on the electronics, they wouldn’t need he stickers at all. They WILL go off them being pink, just like all other tech companies that use moisture sensors