Some time in June 2003, the AC power connector in my PowerBook Pismo stopped working. Around that time, I decided not to repair the connector. Instead, I purchased an extra battery and an external charger, and put off the actual repair until ‘later’. Well, I’ve finally rounded up enough money to buy the part I need, and tonight I started the disassembly of the PowerBook. This is not for the faint of heart, and tearing down a laptop is much more difficult than tearing down your basic tower-style PC. The part I need to replace was located at the deepest regions of the machine, so I had to literally take everything else out to get at it. You can see photos of the process ***here|http://gallery.prwdot.org/pismo_teardown***.

The next step is to send my old part in to ***Pre-Owned Electronics|http://www.preowned.com/***. Once they receive it and verify that it’s repairable, they will send me out an already-repaired, refurbished, and tested part. Hopefully it should come in at around this time next week. Until then, we’ll be without the PowerBook. We’ll deal… we have two other computers. 🙂