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


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