One of the recent solutions has been integrated privacy screens, which dramatically reduce the viewing angle of displays so that if someone attempts to glance over at your screen while you are working, they will see almost nothing. Now HP has come up with a built-in one that can be toggled on and off. You’re probably familiar with removable privacy screens, which let a laptop user view their screen straight on, while blocking anyone looking from the side. Some features can extend battery life too …Īnandtech spotted the trend, and describes some of the new approaches on show. I have no way of knowing what Apple has in store for us in their next series.Laptop privacy features have become something of a trend at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show – including the capability to automatically blur the screen if a bystander looks at it. Even the force of a jet engine won't change things here.ģ - Sorry my crystal ball's light just blew! You'll need to wait until I get a new one. You really need to mop up the water before it hads a chance to evaporate, which you can't.Ģ - Blowing air won't get between the sheets where the deposits are and the spots are now dried like paint air won't move them. And as you are now using a lot more water you have a lot more the dry out. It just will be a thinner coating over a larger area. Dipping it into distilled water won't help as you are assuming the water will find the same pathway your tea did and even if it did all it will do is spread the mess as the dilution won't remove what's in the water when you force the evaporation again. It's glued tight!ġ - Yes you can take the display assembly off but what then? Can't open it to get to the staining. This gets into how to open a common egg without damaging any of the shell! Even All the kings men couldn't put Humpty Dumpy back together after he fell from the wall -}Īpple did a great job making the display impossible to open without breaking it. I guess it would however corrode anything not corroded yet, or otherwise destroy the screen - I am just trying it.Ģ) Would it be helpful, if I disassembled the screen and blown some compressed air Into it, trying to get rid of these parts? what is the danger here?ģ) Would it be possible - and I know probably not - to change it for the mini-led screen when that one comes around? I know apple very much does not like any altering to the devices, I am just trying it. If this is a problem of things 'behind' screen, would it be possible to disassemble the laptop, separate the screen and 'wash' it in distilled water in a clean environment? I know these screens are not waterproof, so submerging it into destilled water, and then letting most of it out should allow the water to at least diminish the number of particles and minerals present, right? Then the screen could dry for a week or two. Pictures attached, the situation now, and the original spillĬan I have an extra question regarding it? they are quite blasphemous, so please have mercy on me.ġ) I can live with it for a while, however, I am wondering. I also found an article here, on how to replace the screen (of a non-retina Pro), with heating the glass, using suction cups to lift it, and change the screen - do you think it would be beneficial (and possible) to do the same here, with me not replacing the screen, but gently blowing air under the glass to dry? Do you have any other suggestions? What do y’all think? Will it blend? (will it dry) or is there any way to fix this? When I tilt the screen, or look at it at an angle, there are bright spots left after where the water had been. However! - It led to a kind of strange effect, as most of the water evaporated, there are no signs of it when looking directly into the screen. I run folding at home at 100% CPU usage for most of the time now, and I have the screen facing the heater, and the spot is dramatically reduced. I found some forums, suggesting to run a python script and warm up the screen, and that it would dry on it’s own.

The diagnostics revealed there is no water damage on the logic board, as I turned it topside up right away, there was some water in the trackpad and keyboard, but nothing too serious, and my computer is running fine.ĪCCEPT - me turning it into a tent position caused a huge water blotch on the left side of the screen.

I immediately put it into a tent position, and tried to dry it, then drove it to an Apple Store for diagnostics. The worst thing happened to me, when I managed to spill some tea into my MacBook Pro 16'‘ (I wrote a song about it, coming soon!

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