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Carl Edlund Anderson <cea20@cus.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

> In article <B198C1CA966828F35@cara.demon.co.uk>, peter@cara.demon.co.uk
> (Peter Ceresole) wrote:
[snip]

> > I'm very much afraid that it's a failure in the connector to your screen; I
> > had exactly the same (half way across the screen from the bottom etc) on an
> > IBM laptop a few years ago. With luck it may be fixable by a good hardware
> > man. On my IBM it was under guarantee and they changed the screen but you
> > don't want to try this with your own money.
> 
>      Mmmm, I was afraid of something like that.  The hinge between screen
> and body has never been the same since the Apple Cambridge BusinessCentre
> did some "repairs" on my machine last year ...  I'll hope it doesn't start
> playing up again! (At least until I've got a job someday and can afford a
> new machine!).

Look on the bright side: if it's just the connector/cable that's playing
up, a repair is at least practical.  If it were my Mac, I'd probably put
up with it until it got bad, and then have a look at the connection
myself.

Rowland.

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