On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 20:55 +0000, Tim wrote: > My daughter Macbook seem to have given up the ghost, while we can it to boot > to > the desktop 1 in 3 attempts, it is very slow. It is not helped by the fact > that > the optical drive is also dead (died back end of November). Can anybody > suggest > any thing to check (complete Mac newbie here) and does anybody know of any > repairer for Macs in Bournemouth, Southampton Portsmouth area. > > Tim > When we took my son's MacBook to bits to replace the CD drive with one that he had bought from e-bay, we ended up with about a dozen screws left, and a pile of junk.
It had been running yellow dog linux. This has nothing to do with my previous email. Michael and I did this at home. Lesson learnt - Take photos every step of the way. Peter -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-02-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue

