MacBook Pro Battery/Trackpad Repair
If you have a MacBook Pro that's been in heavy use for 5 years, chances are (like me) your internal battery is toast. Li-Ion batteries tend to swell when they're beginning the death knell, and suc...
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I have a late 2010 macbook air I bought off of Craigslist about a year ago. It only had abou 375 cycles on the battery it now has 675 and the battery life seems to have shortened considerably. (maybe because of age?) I noticed you mentioned putty knives I've found a 5 in 1 painters tool works well for opening mac mini's, I've bought alot of mac mini's at thrift stores and had to open them to replace the airport card that seems to be the thing that goes out on them.
Actually, what they recommend is a thread soaked in rubbing alcohol. It supposedly breaks down the adhesive cleanly, but that still sounds a bit messy to me.
I recently bought a Tekton kit off of Amazon that's a tinkerer's dream. Not only has the PL1.2 and T4 bits needed to uncork all the screws, but has a magnetic mat to keep them in one place when you've taken them out (and geometrically positioned to where you got them from - I like screws to go back exactly where they came from). But it also came with these two. Came in real handy here.
I'm going to have to get me one of those Tekton kits:smileyhappy: Hopefully my wife has enough in her pay pal. :smileyhappy:
alfrescowrote:I've bought alot of mac mini's at thrift stores and had to open them to replace the airport card that seems to be the thing that goes out on them.
Do they verify that they actually work before they sell them, or are they a kind of an "as is" thing? How much do you usually find them for?
I've always been a little leary about buying electronics from second hand places.
They're an as is kind of thing. I only buy them if they're Cheap enough to where if I brick them it's no big deal. The ones I've bought have been $ 5.00. I'm using the last mac mini I bought as a media center.
$5.00? Are you serious? OMG.
I think I'm going to take a trip to a thrift store in the city. Heck. That cheap? I was figuring at least a couple hundred.
