[Macpartners] A1286 failures

[Helen Rose]

In the past week we've had three MacBook Pro A1286s fail (out of a total of 61). One had a fan that died (at least we think it's the fan, it was definitely burning electronics), and two have dead hard drives. 

Hard drive symptoms: the machines run slower and slower and then eventually don't work at all. Disk Utility reports dead disk. 

This is a heads up, and also to see if anyone else has seen a similar pattern. 

--Helen