A few days ago I walked into my office, sat down and leaned forward to start typing on my work laptop. As both hands hit the keyboard there was a little static shock and the machine instantly turned off.
Shaking my head in annoyance, I unplugged the laptop, pulled the battery and hit the power button to fully discharge it. I then popped the battery back in, plugged it in and powered it up. No worries, everything was fine.
An hour later the same scene repeated itself – but this time it didn’t come back to life.
Hit the power button and the little LED would come on, but that was it. In fact, it wouldn’t even spin up the CPU or video card fans. Forget even getting to a POST. Tried pulling out RAM and drives but apparently the issue is pretty fundamental.
Dead laptop.
I’m still in mourning. I’d had that one for a few years.
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January 15th, 2010 
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Hello, Can I know whether this is an aluminum Mac or some other plastic laptop?
Hey Luis — it was plastic. No alumi-macs here!
Probably had that one for a couple of decades, knowing your old-laptop fetishes
Even so…that truly sucks, buddy…I hope you find another oldie soon
LOL, that particular laptop wasn’t even 3 years old yet (work laptop). Heck, it was a core 2 duo with a 17″ panel! I’d even recently upgraded it to 3GB and a 500GB 7200 RPM drive. Alas.
I replaced it with a core 2 quad
It smokes.
lol! It being a work laptop is probably the reason it’s the only underage computer you’ve ever had
Tho it sounds good to me, specially the new lappy 
I’ve experienced the same several times with both desk and laptops. Try as much as possible to drain static from the processor, memory and motherboard as well by grounding them. You’ll be surprised by the response