Often you can get by with grabbing a spare monitor or working with the data projector. Good idea perhaps now to run time-machine and backup all the stuff on your HDD. good luck. :-) <div class="gmail_quote">2009/11/26 Caryl Bigenho <<a href="mailto:cbigenho@hotmail.com">cbigenho@hotmail.com</a>> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <div> Hi.... My Mac got smashed today at security at DFW. Ed placed the tray with my computer on the track going thru the scanner and as he turned to put another tray on (there was a 18-24" gap between the track and the table), the TSA agent backed the track about 8" knocking the tray with my computer into the gap and onto the floor. It still boots and runs fine, but the screen has lost its backlight. It I use a really bright flashlight, I can barely make out the image. Now I need to do work for the SG and my presentation for Moorpark College. :-( Not sure how I will pull it off I will visit the Apple store this weekend and file a claim with the TSA, but I think this will end up costing me a lot of $$$. Caryl (written on my XO test machine) </div> _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> </blockquote></div> -- Roland Gesthuizen - ICT Coordinator - Westall Secondary College <a href="http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au">http://www.westallsc.vic.edu.au</a> "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed it is the only thing that ever has." --Margaret Mead