Archive for the ‘MacBook’ tag
MacBook 60W Adapter Cable Melted, Fire Hazard
This isn’t the first Mac I’ve owned. Although the iPhone is probably the best phone out there, Mac computers are crap. I found an old blog entry that I wrote when both mine and wifey’s iBook G3 failed at the same time. I also had an extremely hard time replacing the slow 4,200 rpm hard drive in my old iBook. To date, the new MacBooks are still running 5,400 rpm drives. Give me a break, Dell’s already selling laptops with 7,200 rpm drives.
After making three trips to the Apple Service Center at AMK for motherboard, display and power adapter failures, I sold my problematic iBook. Wifey wasn’t so lucky and her iBook failed on her before she could sell it so we sold the parts – AirPort card, power adapter, battery, etc. for money instead. The unsold remains are still in my room.
Wifey's iBook G3 meets the MacBook.
I’m using my (sis’s) MacBook now and the adapter has been acting up for the past few days. It would go on and off intermittently but with some wriggling of the wire near the power brick, the problem goes away. I knew the wires were fraying, but there’s nothing I could do about it. Apple didn’t design their things to be user-serviceable, otherwise I would have taken it apart and soldered the wire. Apple needs to go green with their service program!
A new MacBook battery from eBay
Look what the postman brought over the weekend in a very nicely wrapped package. No tapes, just ropes. Neat!
Nicely wrapped package.
Inside a MacBook Battery
The battery on my MacBook is dying so I decided to just take it apart. You know, nothing stops my curiosity. I love taking things apart ever since young, though I wasn’t able to put most of them back together… last time. Hopefully, some things improved.
Of course, I’ve paid for my curiosity with nasty shocks – just last week, I got a nasty zap from a flash capacitor inside my Canon Powershot A70. I got so pissed I just shorted the capacitor to get rid of the current in it. Some months ago, I got super freakin’ zapped by the household 240V AC current while taking apart a Sun PSU. The house tripped.
Actually, this MacBook belongs to my sis, but she hated it so much so I swapped my laptop with hers, so technically, I’m taking apart her battery.
Anyway, here’s the takeapart journey. Small torx screwdrivers are needed to remove all ten screws on both sides of the battery.
Tiny torx screws at the sides of the MacBook battery.