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New white Macbook's backlied died, but is fine on reboot. Return or no?
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starman
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Nov 3, 2008, 09:38 AM
 
Hi all,
After trying to make a decision about this whole new Macbook/Pro issue, I decided I needed Firewire and a smaller laptop so I went with the older white Macbook.

When I first booted it, it powered up fine and then the display died. I thought maybe the battery just died and I went to plug it in and the thing said "English". Looking at it closer, the screen had booted into the Mac OS X setup dialog but the backlight died. I rebooted it, it booted fine, and has been running fine since yesterday.

Should I be worried about this? Could this just be a glitch?

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Nov 3, 2008, 10:25 AM
 
Have it replaced now rather than later.
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Nov 3, 2008, 01:47 PM
 
Are you sure you didn't just turn the screen brightness down with the F1 key?
     
starman  (op)
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Nov 3, 2008, 02:33 PM
 
Positive because I tried turning it up. I should have mentioned that, but the light was completely off. Even the Apple logo on the front was off.

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