Macbook Pro with 10.4.11 boots up to blue screen and little squares...what to do??, Macbook Pro with 10.4.11 boots up to blue screen and little squares...what to do??

Question

My MBPro, OSX 10.4.11 boots up to frozen blue screen with little pixelated squares. Whats wrong?

Answer 1

Have a local Mac/PC specialist look at your machine (not Apple or a Apple reseller)
Your machine is rather dated and Apple doesn't support your operating system any longer, but the local independant repair guy might be able to recover your files, install a new hard drive and upgrade you to 10.6.8, which is still getting security updates, which you can continue to use the machine a bit longer perhaps.
Your machine is too old to run 10.7 or 10.8 coming out this summer, but that's what I would wait for if your interested in a new machine.
In the meanwhile don't do anything banking related until you get a 10.7 or 10.8 machine, Apple doesn't support older OS X verisons, basically punishing you for taking care of your machine and making it last and not upgrading the OS on their timetable.
Be prepared for major change in 10.7/10.8, it's a differnt and unsettling, a lot of people don't like it and a lot of younger types do like it.
Perhaps you'll be better served on a Windows 7 machine, it doesn't change the UI or break all your programs, but you get malware more often.
No platform is good anymore, both have a bad side to them. Least on Windows the operating system and everythign can be reinstalled again and updates applied to stop the malware, you can use it for 10 years at a time.
Good Luck