Macbook screen fades to white and locks-up
my macbook has a new bad habit of being slow, too many pinwheel timeouts and now the screen fades to white and must be rebooted to work for 5-10 minutes. My research so far indicates a bad wiring between the screen and base or overheating. Help please
macbook has a new bad habit of being slow, too many pinwheel timeouts
Checked to see how much free space there is on the startup disk lately?
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