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<blockquote data-quote="Guidedog" data-source="post: 1624770" data-attributes="member: 338742">Thanks for the helpful and thorough replies. I don't mind operating on humans, but opening a mac would be be beyond my skills!The symptoms are not being reproduced in the repair shop. They have been very good and haven't charged anything even though they have spent a good few hours working on the computer over three separate visits. In the shop, the tech runs the computer on his work bench. He had no problems after running for hours. As soon as I put the Macbook on my knees, it quit. Restarted once, then quit again and would not restart until this morning, 16 hours later. When it quit last night, the power cord was attached and the charge state was 100%. When it restarted this morning, the charge state was 0%. Shortly after it shut off last night, the computer base (towards the screen in the middle) became hot and stayed so for an hour or so. Given the recurrence of shut down with position change, I wonder if the case could be shorting out. Whatever happened, drained the battery completely. Any further thoughts would be helpful. Thanks again</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Guidedog, post: 1624770, member: 338742"] Thanks for the helpful and thorough replies. I don't mind operating on humans, but opening a mac would be be beyond my skills! The symptoms are not being reproduced in the repair shop. They have been very good and haven't charged anything even though they have spent a good few hours working on the computer over three separate visits. In the shop, the tech runs the computer on his work bench. He had no problems after running for hours. As soon as I put the Macbook on my knees, it quit. Restarted once, then quit again and would not restart until this morning, 16 hours later. When it quit last night, the power cord was attached and the charge state was 100%. When it restarted this morning, the charge state was 0%. Shortly after it shut off last night, the computer base (towards the screen in the middle) became hot and stayed so for an hour or so. Given the recurrence of shut down with position change, I wonder if the case could be shorting out. Whatever happened, drained the battery completely. Any further thoughts would be helpful. Thanks again [/QUOTE]

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