Service Your Own PowerBook: Fix the Display
If you check out this PowerBook dissection, you will see the type of things that you can do if your PowerBook's display goes on the fritz, it's out of warranty, and you don't want to spend a mountain of money on repairing it. The picture with this post shows the worn solder points between the board and the display cable. Of course, you have to be handy with a soldering iron, and capable of gingerly taking apart your PowerBook, but if you ever played Operation as a child and won, I'm sure you're prepared.
It should be noted that the person who undertook this hack repair actually works in an Orthopaedic surgery research laboratory, so there might be more than a passing familiarity with a game based upon performing surgery on patients. Steady hands! Steady hands!
[via PowerPage]
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If you check out this PowerBook dissection, you will see the type of things that you can do if your PowerBook's display goes on the fritz,...
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Add an electron microscope to my list of 'Things To Buy To Repair Macs WIth Good.'
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Conrad Quilty-Harper
DAMN! If I'd have known about this when my iBook died I wouldn't have flogged it on eBay so fast. Ah well, I still made 300 out of it (despite it being broken...).
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