My Macbook (white, 4 years old) does not start-up anymore.

It was working fine last night. This morning it does not want to start-up. It goes to the white screen with the apple. The dial comes on and turns for about 30 seconds. Then it shuts down again. It used to first make the loud "ding"-sound as you turned it on, which it also doesn't do. I pressed the button on the battery and all the lights worked. The laptop is fully charged.
The only things that I did last night that were out of the ordinary: I deleted 2603 photos from the iPhoto trash bin and I restored my new iPhone 4S via iTunes and updated the phone too.

Were I not as relatively poor as I am, I would fall for it still. For now, I try to be content with older Apple products repaired by yours truly. And study them I do.
Would it be suffice to say that this a general problem that stems from the drive to make computers ever cheaper and faster?                                                                                               
The problem does not stem from the drive, but from selling vapourware and using cheap chinese labour and inferior components- to make every product ever cheaper, especially electronics. The base problem is globalisation and in the end unsustainable capitalist economics, not just our beloved Apple, sorry to say.
I should also inform you that my grapevine tells me the Mac Pro line may be abandoned by Apple in the near future, so I wouldn't bet on those any more. Again, sorry to say. And yes, up till now MacPros have been VERY reliable, generally speaking.
Enough with this offtopic, though.
I have good hopes your MacBook may be rescued yet; please keep us posted! Try 3 things first: 1. Zap the PRAM (hold down P+R+alt+option while starting & wait for a second chime at least before releasing). 2. Reset the PMU ( take off the power adaptor, remove the battery and then hold down the power button for at least 5"; next repower&restart), 3. Start up in Safe Mode (hold down Shift while starting up), let it run for at least 1/2 hours if it will start, next restart normally. Hope this works!

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