A few weeks ago I sent in my PowerBook to get a new SuperDrive. After they determined that it was not, in fact, covered by the one-year limited warranty (and I have no AppleCare), they offered to replace it for $900.00 USD. Uh, no. So I bought one myself for $200.
Using the iFixIt guide for a reference, I unscrewed a bunch of stuff and it was going okay until the part where you disconnect the trackpad ribbon. The ribbon shown in this picture is about TWICE the width of the one on my PowerBook, which makes it so small that I can't seem to follow through with their disconnection instructions.
Is disconnecting that ribbon even necessary? I kind of "ignored" that part and continued, but I can't pull the casing off: I can get the sides up but it feels like something's still connected, like under the keyboard part. Which would be near that ribbon.
So I stopped. It was kind of stressing me out. I do stuff all the time to Dell desktops so I'm kind of surprised at how hard this is being for me.
By the way, you know those prong things that are around the sides of the casing inside? My PowerBook came back from Apple kind of bulged in places, and opening it up as much as I did, I see it's because some of those prongs are BENT. It's quite irritating.
Using the iFixIt guide for a reference, I unscrewed a bunch of stuff and it was going okay until the part where you disconnect the trackpad ribbon. The ribbon shown in this picture is about TWICE the width of the one on my PowerBook, which makes it so small that I can't seem to follow through with their disconnection instructions.
Is disconnecting that ribbon even necessary? I kind of "ignored" that part and continued, but I can't pull the casing off: I can get the sides up but it feels like something's still connected, like under the keyboard part. Which would be near that ribbon.
So I stopped. It was kind of stressing me out. I do stuff all the time to Dell desktops so I'm kind of surprised at how hard this is being for me.
By the way, you know those prong things that are around the sides of the casing inside? My PowerBook came back from Apple kind of bulged in places, and opening it up as much as I did, I see it's because some of those prongs are BENT. It's quite irritating.