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About four months ago, my faithful iBook began having problems. When I'd lift the laptop's screen, it would fade to black, and would stay that way unless I kept it at exactly the right angle. A few weeks after the problem began, the right angle disappeared, and the screen stayed dark.

A search at www.macintouch.com quickly turned up a possible culprit: the connection between the laptop and the screen was probably frayed, a condition that other iBook users had reported happening as their machines aged. I was going to have to get it repaired ... and I wasn't going to be able to use it until I did.