PSA: If you vape by a computer all day, be sure to clean the internals every so often.

[daniel craig]

A few months ago, my laptop shut off and wouldn't turn on. I brought it into Apple who told me there was liquid damage despite my absolutely meticulous care and no-drink rule, quoted $1200.

My meticulous care of my computer doesn't extend to vaping near it, but I'm getting there.

Fortunately I know to get a second opinion before being shaken down, so I did. Long story short, what seemed to be a fried computer really just needed a good cleaning (for less than $50, **** you very much Apple).

I work mostly from home and am in front of a computer all day. The Mac laptops are known for getting particularly warm due to their aluminum design, and thus fans are often running. Fans that suck in VG-laced vapor.

I have, at times, found VG residue trapped under my phone case, kindle case, places like that. While I am admittedly guessing, I can only imagine that is what made its way into my computer and the guy who cleaned it agreed. Literally nothing else makes sense with the way I treat my laptop, aka my access to livelihood.

The good news is that, again, all was fine in the end. Vaping did not ruin my computer. Vaping probably ruined nobody's computer.

However, it's good to keep in mind that electronics and the humid fog we collectively expel into our living spaces don't mix well. I doubt this would have been a problem if I didn't spend as much time in front of this exact computer as I do. So for most, this is a non-issue. For those who spend a significant chunk of time with especially laptops and especially Macs, I'd say it's a good policy to crack it open and clean it yourself every few months, or else have it done professionally.

That is all!

Source: http://vapingunderground.com/index.php?threads/233324/

 

[Spydro]

Good read... glad it worked out to be a minor fix for you.

My computers have survived operating in "The Fog Belt" for 3+ years of vaping without issues. But I seldom use my laptops, so only the resident desk top is on 24/7/365 and in use most of those hours. However, my tower case is up under my full size totally enclosed computer desk/hutch on a stand that elevates it high above the floor nearly to the desk top. So vapor getting to it's fan's in volume likely does not happen. And my keyboard/wireless mouse are on a slide out wood tray right under the desk top. The keyboard only slid out and the mouse on the desk top only when in actual use. So the flat screen is all that gets exposed to settling vapor if I occasionally don't exhale to the side like I normally do. Even so it is cleaned regularly along with the keyboard/mouse same as before I started vaping. Even though I have had computers since the early 1980's, none of them have ever been exposed to tobacco smoke.

(When I still smoked stinkies and pipes I had gone outside to use them 24/7/365 since the mid 1970's when we first learned that the ex was pregnant with our son. I smoked when we first met, she didn't mind that she was exposed to them the first 10 years we were together. But by then secondhand smoke was coming into the limelight, so her "condition" was the trigger that made me change to not smoking around non smokers at all ever again. A bachelor again since 2002 I still went outside to smoke 24/7 until I quit. Just my way for so long, but also a plus for the gal pals after that as it happens none of have been smokers or vapers.)