"Max Hauser" > wrote in message
...
> Remarkable item in today's Palo Alto [California] Daily News (Sunday,
March
> 6, 2005, page 10).
>
> Diana Diamond reports asking a consultant at an Apple Computer retail
store's
> "Genius Bar" what was the principal repair problem with laptop Macs.
"Wine,"
> was the answer. People drinking and typing, spilling on the keyboard,
"which
> basically ruins the computer," requiring "almost a four-figure" repair
job.
> Red wine more often than white. [I guess they'd know, wouldn't they.]
> Silicon Valley having a higher than average rate of these incidents.
>
> www.paloaltodailynews.com is the general site, though at the moment, the
> site warns that most links are temporarily down, and I could not get to an
> online version of the text.
>
> Don't drink and type.
>

Sounds like a problem with rookie wine drinkers -- I think that with years
of intensive practice a person can handle both a glass and a keyboard.

Mike P (who is finishing the remnants of dinner's St Joseph as he types)