The LaptopLifestyle crew walk you through replacing a laptop keyboard. I personally get the shivers whenever I start taking a laptop apart... it's like cracking open a swiss watch. Some of the newer models, especially the modular ones, have gotten a bit better recently, but it's still a task that you never want to take lightly.

"A few weeks ago, I had the misfortune of discovering that my girlfriend had spilled a chocolate milkshake onto my ASUS A8J series laptop. Although she managed to get most of the surface wiped up, most of the goop sat lying underneath the keys, eventually, killing the keyboard."