Emphasis on PC touchpads. Its pretty easy to replace the touchpads on Macbooks.

More often than not, that'* not the case. It takes me half the time to replace the touchpad on a HP DV4000 than it does on a MacBook Pro.

I refurbish laptops as a side business. You know what'* great about this business? I can charge double for labor on a Mac than on a Windows based laptop. I replace normal laptop motherboards for $75. I won't even touch a MacBook for under $75. I charged a guy $100 to replace his screen bezel, and he was ecstatic at how cheap I did it for him compared to what he was quoted at the Apple store. Took me about 30 minutes to do the job.

That being said, search ebay for a new touchpad. That will be your best bet. Laptopaid is one seller that will come up a lot, and I would very highly recommend them.

Hmm, I've read the pros are a biatch to work on, but the old macbooks were easy. I had to take mine apart to change the fan. Wasn't too bad, that and parts are easy to find, since they dont come out with revised models every month like pc makers.

Ah, that could very well be true. I haven't worked on the older ones. I have worked on at least a dozen MacBook Pro laptops and they definitely are a huge biatch to work on. Its stupid how careful you have to be when replacing the screens on those because of how easily the bezel breaks. That Bezel is very weak aluminum and bends and cracks very easily, and to make matters worse, the screen is taped to it with double sided tape all the way around. I had one guy drop his and break the bezel, and I found one luckily on ebay. The guy said bid as high as you need to in order to buy it. The bid went to $151, for just a screen bezel! I get DV4000 screen bezels for $15.

I took apart a old-style MBP screen once for a panel swap. Cursed the whole way, but somehow made it in and out without collateral damage.

The secret, unfortunately, is patience. And preferably one of those Apple black nylon pry tools, although I use a flathead screwdriver wrapped in duct tape and it doesn't chew up too much.

I have no patience for those things, or the fingers of far east technician. Wireless mouse is a whole lot less headache. I have a similar maintenance problem with my camera. Took it out 3 days icefishing in the upper30'*/40. Very humid conditions and I got a dried watermark on an inner lens to my standard one. (It'* the standard Canon lens for Rebels and a known issue) I found a "blowup" diagram for it and I'm thinking I out to just go by another for the price and keep the other for hunting/fishing situations. It'* a small mark on photos I can edit out.

Yes, give yourself plenty of time to work through these repairs.