They can do that if you piss on them! Anyway, do you have drinks near the keyboard? My daughter fried her Macbook when her 2-year-old spilled a drink into it. She sent the Macbook to me, and I fixed a component on the keyboard, easy fix (even then, keyboard replacements are under $100). These machines are rugged and last a long time if not abused, and repair is cheap if you do it yourself. My wife just upgraded her ten-year-old Macbook earlier this year, it still works fine but she wanted features on the latest machines. A neighbor brought his busted Macbook Pro to me, he was going to toss it in the garbage but then thought I might want it. I easily fixed it with a $20 part. His son had broken a jack in a port, then jammed another jack in which fried a part. Easy fix, and my neighbor is back in business. I have found that most problems are user-caused.
One other thought. Years ago I bought a "broken" Mac laptop at a garage sale for $10. It booted to a screen that presented the "?" indicating there was no bootable hard drive available. I found I could boot it from a floppy boot disk. Obviously the problem was a bad hard drive.
I bought a replacement hard drive for $65 and installed it (easy to do) and then installed the latest MacOS operating system on the Mac laptop. Voila! I had a working Mac laptop that just cost me only $75.
A few years later, we had someone pilfer quite a few things out of our house. . . guns, power and hand tools, books, just a lot of stuff that you wouldn't notice were missing until you started noticing they were gone. We suspected the caregiver we had hired to take care of my mother-in-law, but could not prove it. One of them was this old, garage sale Mac laptop.
I dutifully made a list of everything we could not find (a hard thing to do. . . how do you prove a negative? There's suddenly a hole where something once was.) I added that laptop to the list and explained where I had gotten it, relating the $10 price and $65 hard drive I had put into it to get it working, figuring I'd get $75 for it's value. I hadn't really touched it in a couple of years.
About two weeks later, I came home and there was a box for me in our entry way. I asked my wife what it was. She said it had been delivered by UPS and required a signature. I opened it and it was a BRAND NEW, top of the$2500 Apple Lombard Mac Laptop computer. I called the insurance adjuster who was working with me on the theft and asked her "what gives?"
She reminded me that I had a replacement value rider on my homeowners policy and since the laptop I had purchased at that garage sale for $10 had been, when new, a top of the line model, that was what they were replacing it with: a brand new top of the line Mac laptop!
For the next several weeks, it was like Christmas morning, every day as more and more stuff was delivered to our house to replace the stolen stuff. . . my Dad's tool box full of old Craftsman tools I'd inherited was replaced by a complete set of Craftsman PRO tools in a five foot rolling cabinet! All the small hand power tools, by Craftsman PRO tools, etc.
The insurance companies no longer buy the stuff on the replacement policies, they have you buy it and then reimburse you for what you replace. Not as full service as they were before. RATS. It was sure nice when they did it!
Funny thing, six years later, someone punched the lock out of the trunk of my car and stole that Lombard Mac Laptop. . . and my insurance company bought me ANOTHER $2500 top of the line Mac laptop to replace it!
Another change is that the insurance company has changed its customer service drastically. Four years ago I was burglarized and the thieves only took BlueRay movies. They stole over $12,000 of them from me, going through my movie collection and creaming out every single BlueRay movie I had, leaving behind the DVD movies. The police said they had had more than 650 residential burglaries in North Stockton between June and September of that year in which only BlueRay disks were stolen!
I had a complete inventory on my computer of the disks I had, both DVD and BlueRay to give to the Police and my insurance company, so I knew exactly what was stolen. The police also knew where they were going to be sold. . . Rasputin. I went over with my list to Rasputin to give my list to the manager. I was amazed at what I saw. . . low-life, after low-life, pants hanging off their asses, coming in with garbage bags full of BlueRay disks to sell, "extras from their collections" they claimed. The clerks at Rasputin KNEW THEM BY NAME and were buying these disks with no questions asked! I saw why my DVDs were ignored. The few DVDs brought in were purchased for 50¢ each while BlueRays were $3 to $5 and 3D BlueRays were $7 to $10 each! The store manager, when she showed up, was not interested in looking at my list.
In any case, my insurance company treated ME as if I were trying to perpetrate fraud on THEM! They were very suspicious that I even had any BlueRays at all. . . and demanded proof! They demanded RECEIPTS for every single one! Who keeps receipts for under $20 purchases over multiple years? The insurance company told me to get copies of the receipts from the vendors. Walmart doesn't keep receipts beyond 90 days. . . and even then only by the last four digits of the credit card number and you have to KNOW the date of purchase to find it. Do you know how many people share your last four digits in a Walmart purchasing zone? I found out. Oh, and the products are listed not by name but by UPC code! Good luck,
The insurance company did not care that such burglaries were rife in my area of Stockton. . . so, this time, even though I had "replacement value" and a contemporaneous to purchase list of everything stolen, they refused to pay replacement value on my BlueRay collection unless I could come up with receipts to prove I actually owned every single one they would pay on! Out of the more than $12,000 purchase value stolen, they finally paid of a depreciated value of under $4500. I changed insurance companies for that treatment!