Glen "Wiley" Wilson wrote:

when it is on. Let a drip from a port find its way to the keyboard
and it's probably all over. When the laptop is off, there is some

Depends on how lucky you are. I once was called, I was a sys admin, to
look at a laptop because "the mouse doesn't work right." I grabbed a
hardware guy and we wandered down to look a the afflicted machine.
While looking about I noticed some sort of liquid below the unit and
mentioned it to the HW guy. He picked up the unit and accidentally
tipped it slightly, about a tablespoon of coffee poured out onto the
desk. Shut it down, took it back to the office, disassembled it, he
took the keyboard home and ran it through the dishwasher. Cleaned up as
much coffee as possible from inside of the unit, reassembled, took it
back to them and powered it up. Took about 4 hours total.