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- iBook G4
Last November I bought a used MacBook Pro A1260 15". It's a late 2008 model. Here are the full specs: http://tinyurl.com/7splcto
Woke up last week to find it wouldn't turn on. Attempted SMC and P-RAM resets, visited a genius bar. Diagnosis: logic board fried. Replacement would cost hundreds of pounds. Searching the forums, I came across a place (AppleRepairsInLondon.co.uk) which said they could repair the logic board at component level. Which they did, for £255. Got it back yesterday, and it seems to be working fine.
What the guy said who mended it was that, in addition to the logic board problem the laptop had been overheating and one of the fans had gone. He told me: don't run the MacBook on the battery and the power-cord at the same time. Use battery, run it down, recharge etc.
Maybe I'm just ignorant, but I'd never heard this before. Is this good advice? Could running the two together have caused the overheating and logic board failure? How can I avoid the same problems in future? All suggestions gratefully received.
Woke up last week to find it wouldn't turn on. Attempted SMC and P-RAM resets, visited a genius bar. Diagnosis: logic board fried. Replacement would cost hundreds of pounds. Searching the forums, I came across a place (AppleRepairsInLondon.co.uk) which said they could repair the logic board at component level. Which they did, for £255. Got it back yesterday, and it seems to be working fine.
What the guy said who mended it was that, in addition to the logic board problem the laptop had been overheating and one of the fans had gone. He told me: don't run the MacBook on the battery and the power-cord at the same time. Use battery, run it down, recharge etc.
Maybe I'm just ignorant, but I'd never heard this before. Is this good advice? Could running the two together have caused the overheating and logic board failure? How can I avoid the same problems in future? All suggestions gratefully received.