Mine T440s survived being soaked twice. Once with hot latte, once with mineral water. Both times it was completely soaked.
It has internal battery which means it is not enough to power it down, you actually have to go to BIOS to turn the battery off. But when I spilled latte the keyboard stopped working and I was unable to power it down. I had to turn it around to open it up and in the process the sweet latte reached every single part of the motherboard.
The second time, I had the laptop in my bag. I put the bag on my lap on a bus stop and after some time I felt water on my legs. I yanked the laptop and from inside water started poring. I think there was at least 0.2-0.3L of water in it.
As I just moved I had no tools on my hand. I had to call my boss and tell him I need to take care of my laptop. I then drove to a shopping center to buy IPA, demineralized water and tools.
Water got absolutely everywhere. It was between individual leaves of LCD panel. I had to disassemble the laptop into its constituent parts including the display.
In both cases I have thoroughly washed the laptop (actually submerging it), first in water and then in IPA.
The laptop is still fine and other than a little bit of discoloration of the LCD panel and a small bit of hair from my beard within the panel which I missed when assembling it, you wouldn't say anything bad happened to it.
It has internal battery which means it is not enough to power it down, you actually have to go to BIOS to turn the battery off. But when I spilled latte the keyboard stopped working and I was unable to power it down. I had to turn it around to open it up and in the process the sweet latte reached every single part of the motherboard.
The second time, I had the laptop in my bag. I put the bag on my lap on a bus stop and after some time I felt water on my legs. I yanked the laptop and from inside water started poring. I think there was at least 0.2-0.3L of water in it.
As I just moved I had no tools on my hand. I had to call my boss and tell him I need to take care of my laptop. I then drove to a shopping center to buy IPA, demineralized water and tools.
Water got absolutely everywhere. It was between individual leaves of LCD panel. I had to disassemble the laptop into its constituent parts including the display.
In both cases I have thoroughly washed the laptop (actually submerging it), first in water and then in IPA.
The laptop is still fine and other than a little bit of discoloration of the LCD panel and a small bit of hair from my beard within the panel which I missed when assembling it, you wouldn't say anything bad happened to it.