Thanx to all for your helpful suggestions. I am looking at a drive taken as salvage from another unit in Toronto. Thanx again, Garth. On Mar 29, 2009, at 9:34 AM, Dean Danis wrote: iFixit and Other World sell MacBook parts at a resonable price. http://www.ifixit.com/Products/MacBook-13-Inch/Optical-Drives/15/86 http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/superdrive/MacBook_13 Dean Danis 519-494-8639 90 Caprice Cr. London Ontario N5V 3M2 > From: eurogarth@xxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [muglo] Help? > Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 19:29:16 -0400 > To: muglo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Does anyone out their have a spare combo or super drive that will fit > the Macbook white? > > The optical (combo drive) drive in my daughter's Macbook white (not > the unibody) has given up the ghost after just 15 months... just > enough for the warranty to have run out. Our only local KW Mac dealer > sez "if they can find one", it will be about $400.00! > > My daughter travels extensively and the dealer proposed "just get an > external travel" just dosen't cut it. Nor did their "well a drive > only has so spins in it sir". > Thanx, > Garth. > > > > > > --- > MUGLO information at <http://www.freewebs.com/muglo> > Manage your account options at <//www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/ > lsg2.cgi> > > > _________________________________________________________________ Share photos with friends on Windows Live Messenger http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid?50734 --- MUGLO information at <http://www.freewebs.com/muglo> Manage your account options at <//www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/ lsg2.cgi> --- MUGLO information at <http://www.freewebs.com/muglo> Manage your account options at <//www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/lsg2.cgi>