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[butilikethecookie]

I have a white late 2006 mac aswell. It is running lion. Please try to install lion. It suggest...errr...borrowing a friends .dmg, mount it and burn with to a dvd with disk utility. Reboot. Hold the apple key down until u hear the chime and wait for it to boot. Be patient it takes a while to come up! Format the disk, Rename it,etc. and install. The system lags a VERY tiney little bit but it is very stable. If you can't, try to reinstall snow leopard, and do all the updates. Try the app store again.
Take it to the apple store at tell them you think this is the defect. They replaced all my caseing for free! Really-they will check your serial number and if it is, they will replace it. If not, It cost you 130 bucks. Not too bad, really.

[Mark]

This is an early 2006 model with just a core duo unfortunately, thus no 64 bit support

[Chasethebase]

Yeah if you take it into an Apple Store for anything they're likely to replace the casing if it looks scuffed/dirty and clean it too. They did this for a friend of mine when the hard drive failed in hers.

[Lunfai]

Mark, on 16 April 2012 - 17:49, said:

This is an early 2006 model with just a core duo unfortunately, thus no 64 bit support

Meadowhall, Apple Store is really friendly (like most of them), they might offer a cleaning solution that can really work that yellow off, they might use the same solution that they use to clean the iPhone's before applying the screen protectors. Traditionally, I've heard of cleaning solution pens that are used to get rid of yellow and dirt off the keyboard.



Oh and you can install Lion on your laptop, you'll just need to bypass the Intel Core 2 Duo, i5, i7 blah blah screen. Hit up Macrumors for a guide, there's one similar on there right now which is quite popular because it's used to get Mountain Lion Developer Previews on the older hardware.

Also, chasethebase I love your deviantArt ;-)

[Mark]

One more odd thing actually. This Macbook seems to emit an odd high pitch sound when, and only when you're not moving the cursor, or typing something.

I know it sounds crazy but it's true! I have no idea what could cause this. It's not the sound of typing that masks the sound either, you can just hold a button down and it still stops it. Let go and there it is back again.

[9³³9]

Mark, on 23 April 2012 - 00:45, said:

One more odd thing actually. This Macbook seems to emit an odd high pitch sound when, and only when you're not moving the cursor, or typing something.
I know it sounds crazy but it's true! I have no idea what could cause this. It's not the sound of typing that masks the sound either, you can just hold a button down and it still stops it. Let go and there it is back again.

I believe key making contact creates a small electrical current.
is it possible to adjust the key "repeat" frequency? increase the repeat time a lot. then hold down one of the repeating keys (most of them).
Changing the power draw of the display (such as dimming) might change electrical current.
I'm just guessing at a experiments.

[+cooky560]

If it's emitting an odd noise when a key isn't pressed, it's likely there's something shorting somewhere, that might be worth getting looked at.

[@mac]

If i remember right a Mr Clean Magic eraser works great to clean a white macbook.