White Spots in 12" Powerbook?

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NULL - 12 Feb 2005 09:19 GMT

I have a 12" Powerbook (1.33gHz) that is about six months old. It
appears to be developing the faint white spots that affected many of
the 15" machines a short while ago. I checked out the recall page for
the 15" and saw where it shows the spots to be most often. Sure enough,
the three or four spots I believe are developing on my Powerbook
coincide roughly with the diagram on that page.

My question is: has anyone heard of or knows of any other 12's with
this problem?

I'm pretty certain that this isn't impact damage or abuse. I baby this
laptop, keep it in a good, padded case and out of the cold, heat and
such.

We have a couple of Apple Stores in town & I'll be hitting one of them
with it to see what the folks there have to say.

Cheers.

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Tim Lance - 12 Feb 2005 14:46 GMT

> I have a 12" Powerbook (1.33gHz) that is about six months old. It
> appears to be developing the faint white spots that affected many of
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> Cheers.

Damn, that would be too bad. Have you checked out the forums on Apple's
own site? apple.com>Support>Discussions

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NULL - 13 Feb 2005 05:36 GMT

> > I have a 12" Powerbook (1.33gHz) that is about six months old. It
> > appears to be developing the faint white spots that affected many of
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I found one posting & the folks got "impact damage" responses from
Apple.

http://discusssearch.info.apple.com/webx?14@921.hX1BaGxwPtU.17@.68a178eb

I'm not optimistic about getting Apple to take care of this.

Joe

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Tim Lance - 13 Feb 2005 18:45 GMT

> > > I have a 12" Powerbook (1.33gHz) that is about six months old. It
> > > appears to be developing the faint white spots that affected many of
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> Joe

IIRC, the sequence of events with the 15" was denial/happenstance, case
by case repair with no admission, finally admission

Same sequence with iBook logic boards.

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NULL - 13 Feb 2005 20:47 GMT

> > > > I have a 12" Powerbook (1.33gHz) that is about six months old. It
> > > > appears to be developing the faint white spots that affected many of
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Maybe I'm a pioneer. One thing in my favor, I think, is that I can see
absolutely no marks of any kind on the lid of my Powerbook, which
appears to have been an issue with the folks posting to the Apple
Kbase.

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Tim Lance - 14 Feb 2005 02:09 GMT

> > > > > I have a 12" Powerbook (1.33gHz) that is about six months old. It
> > > > > appears to be developing the faint white spots that affected many of
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> appears to have been an issue with the folks posting to the Apple
> Kbase.

Good luck!

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didiee - 26 Feb 2005 23:06 GMT

i have the same problem. about 6 months old 12'' pb. they gave me the
same run around.... i hope somewhere down the line we can have it
fixed..... 1500 for a laptop that goes into inperfection in 6 months?
BAD!

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White Spots in 12" Powerbook?