--If it was ONLY water, there is still a chance that drying Bertie out will help. If the water hit other components, you will soon have bigger problems. However, if only one row is out, I encourage you to keep trying to dry it out!
--Everyone, please use a keyboard skin! A slosh of beer took out my keyboard on this MacBook several years ago. When I replaced it, I got a skin, and the skin has done its job and prevented other spills from being catastrophic. At the very least it gives time to blot fast.
As for the robustness, the older MacBooks like yours are holding up really well, and many people are repairing/upgrading instead of going to newer ones, for all kinds of reasons. (Mine: I must have that SD card port and FireWire, and I do not want to lug around more cables.)
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--Everyone, please use a keyboard skin! A slosh of beer took out my keyboard on this MacBook several years ago. When I replaced it, I got a skin, and the skin has done its job and prevented other spills from being catastrophic. At the very least it gives time to blot fast.
As for the robustness, the older MacBooks like yours are holding up really well, and many people are repairing/upgrading instead of going to newer ones, for all kinds of reasons. (Mine: I must have that SD card port and FireWire, and I do not want to lug around more cables.)