Spilled a little water on my MacBook Pro

I'm posting this to give anyone out there who accidentally spilled water on their macbook hope. I accidentally knocked my water bottle over and it spilled directly on my macbook pro keyboard. I quickly picked it up and flipped it over in an attempt to drain out the water. A fair amount poured out of my computer. Leaving it upside down I grabbed a paper towel and kept dabbing the keyboard to get any additional moisture out. My computer was still turned on this whole time. After no more water came out on the paper towel I flipped it back and set it on my desk. The screen went black within seconds. In a panic I turned it back on. It fired up and went to the log in screen and I started typing my password. Halfway through it went black again and wouldn't turn back on. I then turned to google and found quite a few stories of people who spilled water and by turning their computer off immediately and fully drying their computer they had success and it turned back on. In hopes that there was a slight chance I didn't fry the hard drive I left my computer upside down on an air conditioner vent at home for 1 week. I attempted to turn it on and still nothing. I attempted to plug it in and no response from the power cord (little light on the power cord didn't even light up). In a last attempt I turned my blow dryer on the cool setting and blow dried the keyboard and inputs on the sides for about 10 minutes and then let it sit on the vent again over night. Still nothing the next morning so I took it into the Apple Store. They took it apart and said there was water on the hard drive and SSD and said that to replace these two would be $1,500. I decided I may as well just buy a new macbook rather than replace parts so said I would just take it home as is. They put back together the next day and I picked it up a few days later. At the two week point post spill I was about to go out and buy a new computer but for the heck of it pushed the power button and was amazed to see that my macbook booted up! I logged in and everything was as it was before the spill. All keys work just fine and when I plugged it in it began charging!! I've been using it all day today and am typing this very message from it!! I think having the Apple Store take it apart and leave it over night made everything dry out properly and that's why it's miraculously working now! Hope this helps anyone else out there who is as accident prone as me. From now on only spill-proof sippy-cups at my desk!

Unfortunately, water and electronic components do not mix well. I would recommend you take it to your closest Apple store for an evaluation. Note that such damage would not be covered by the warranty.

You don't have a repair place either? I don't know that I would send it in without knowing what may or may not need to be fixed. I also would not be able to tell them what to do as I'm not a repair person - I would simply tell them what happened and what you've done since. They're the experts; they'll check and test it to see if anything needs fixing. So if you have no repair place or Apple store, I'd probably call or chat with their support first to find out how to proceed.

I recommend you do nothing more than you already did. Sending it to someone for evaluation will only result in one of several possible outcomes: it is determined to have had liquid damage, in which case the repair will be expensive and not covered by warranty, or that they can't find anything wrong and send it back to you. The possibility of the repair facility damaging something through ineptitude or neglect may not be immediately evident, or that they may not be aware of or admit, is another possibility.

Liquid damage, if it exists, will not be rectified by using isopropyl alcohol or any other solvent at this point. Corrosion, if any exists, will have already occurred and cannot not be removed without replacing the components affected by it.

It's quite possible the water did not contaminate any components at all, and that your Mac is perfectly fine.