insect inside my mac!!!

The best solution is take a #0 screw driver and open it up and blow it out with a can of Air.

You'll need a #6 Torque driver for the 2 bottom screws.

The repair is very easy!

This has actually come up here before and one solution is to put the mac on a bed of mint, which ants hate. Better to encourage it to leave than to kill it inside the computer and risk the possibility of a short.

The classic response to this , of course, is that you had better submit a "bug report", then! , but I know that isn't really helpful. 😉

The worry with a flying ant is that it might be a "queen' looking for a place to start a colony, though it was more likely just attracted by the warmth. If the computer was running at the time it may simply have been blown back out again, as the vents go to the outlet for the two fans. If it hasn't got too far in you might even be able to blow it out, or encourage it to leave , by putting the computer under maximum stress by running some video rendering or the like. The processor heat sinks end up near the fans , and the beastie might decide that it is too hot for comfort, or get ejected forcibly as the fan speed increases.

Barring that, it is a trip to the repair shop, I fear. I wouldn't really be worried about the likelihood of damage from a single ant, but a pregnant female could do some real harm, once there were a few thousand of her progeny wandering around inside!

You aren't alone, I'm afraid, and ants really can be an issue in electrical gear, so it needs watching, though the chances are, if there was just one, nothing will come of it.

Good luck!

Rod

Put an ant trap or two outside the mac and or a sticky mouse trap with some honey in the middle of the glue board and see if it will come out to eat and then die.

If you can live with a corpse inside then put the mac in a plastic bag and vacuum all the air out of it and leave for a day. Or fill with CO2 with dry ice in a well large pastic bag and suffocate it.

Or play hip-hop music in iTunes which would drive anything away.

Play sexy ant love songs on a stereo and tempt it to go investigate, then swat it.

Try vacuuming it out at the same spot it went in.

I've had the same problem.

I did the following

1. Put Computer in a bag airtight.
2. Put computer in freezer
3. Gently tilt and swivel the computer until the insect corpse comes out

DO NOT OVER USE THE COMPUTER because the insect will die and the insect blood (which is a liquid) may damage your computer.

I wouldn't recommend this solution...remember that the "LCD" in the description of the display stands for "Liguid Crystal Display", the important word here being "LIQUID". Putting your MBP or any LCD in the freezer can cause the display to freeze and crack, creating a much more expensive problem than a little ant.

LCD - Liquid Crystal Display contains no liquid!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_crystal

I'd recommend 30 minutes to 1 hour 30 minutes. It depends on the cool setting in the freezer.

Use a Zip Lock bag so you can prevent ice from touching your MacBook Pro

Might need to specify the particular ant species , too Rick.

The literature on this subject seems somewhat sparse, but http://fireant.ifas.ufl.edu/publications/EE31_127.pdf offers information based on what happens when you freeze one of your less durable, equatorial, ant species.

If this is a hardier , northern, ant, however, the OP might run into a situations where they have to get their freezer down to a temperature below the recommended minimum storage temperature for the MBP.


Mmm. this could get tricky!

slvg85, could you confirm that this ant is not a refugee from Alaska or the Siberian tundra? 😉

Cheers

Rod

Contact AppleCare.

You may want to specify time intervals as I fear he will be in the freezer with it doing #3.