re: #196 Kilroy was here

A blown cap stinks.. bad… Blown more than a few while validating motherboards.
The hard drive should be intact however so there is that. Not sure how Apple deals with migrating data to a new machine.

I always have 2 backups on my machines—one with Time Machine and another with Carbon Copy Cloner. When I transfer to a new machine, I just transfer the data on the last Time Machine backup.