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Well, if there's enough condensation, they might catch you. Do laptops have the water-damage-sensing things that they put in cell phones? The ones that permanently change color when they get wet so that they know that the phone got wet?

Don't refrigerators and freezers have lower-than-normal condensation? Put a loaf of bread or cookies in the refrigerator and they will be dry by the end of the day.

Condensation happens when the article is reintroduced to a warm, damp environment -- ask anyone who wears glasses in winter. Photographers will often put cold-soaked bodies and lenses into ziploc bags before going indoors after an outdoor shoot in winter, maintaining the low-humidity environment until the equipment has reached room temperature.

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> Do laptops have the water-damage-sensing things that they put in cell phones?

No.

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