15.06.2007 08:35 Uhr, Quelle: Hardmac.com

Death of a PowerBook: Screwed by a Screw

Last March, we were reporting the unlucky story of one of our team member with his more than 3-years old PowerBook 17". A screw came out and induced a short-circuit, and definitely killed the motherboard. From our French forum, numerous PowerBook 17" owners were reporting similar story, or when opening their notebook to check the screw found it loosely attached. Yesterday, one of our team members, Yoc, lost his similarly aged PowerBook 17" the same way. The very same screw created a short-circuit almost exactly at the same place. If in March, one could have thought that this screw was coming out due to physical or mechanical stress applied when carrying the notebook, for Yoc's PB it can not be: it was a used a

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