I’ve been having a crapload of trouble with my Late ‘06 macbook.

So far I’ve had

  • Two logic board replacements (and I need a third)
  • At least two heatpipe / thermal replacements
  • The display panel replaced
  • The battery replaced at least twice
  • The charger replaced

.  This last time the repair depot replaced the logic board, clearly it was a hardware problem, but they decided to wipe my hard disk for some inexplicable reason, and install 10.4 even though it had 10.6 installed.  Which was OK, I had a backup.  But by the time I spent the 4-5 hours doing the Time Machine restore and rebooted it wasn’t starting up anymore.  That’s right, the new logic board died on the second reboot.  Basically, the repair depot gave me a faulty part and wiped my machine.  Thanks for the help.

I’ve gone through three  logic boards (including the one it came with).  If I ship it to the repair depot and they give me fourth logic board, what’s to stop that one from breaking too?

I’m a software developer for a living, and I depend on this machine for my livelihood.  And when it has three major issues in the last 4 months, I can’t depend on it.