Q: My MacPro screen is fuzzy ? help !!

The display is the major potential problem.  Batteries will always have to be eventually be replaced.

I suggest a trip to the genius bar at the Apple store for a definitive diagnosis and cost assessment.

Ciao.

This is not a problem with the display itself but ether the GPU or the display cable.

your model might be one of the ones affected by bad nVidia GPUs, see here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2377

take your computer to an Apple store (doesn't matter if it's out of warrantee), show them the above article, if it is the GPU they should fix it free of charge.

The battery is a separate issue, Apple considers them a consumable, after two years my battery decided to swell up for no apparent reason, even though it had low number of cycles and they refused to replace it. Apple replacements are very expensive but if you google for 3rd party macbook battery replacements you will find some very affordable replacements that have greater capacity and look exactly the same.

Thomas Brierley, greetings;  I would urge great caution purchasing batteries from some third party sources.  Ones from reputable sources will be slightly less expensive than Apple, but not by much.  Ones that are much less than what Apple charges all too often have turned our to be inferior products.  There have been a number of posts on this forum to that effect where a 'bargain' turns out to be a nightmare.

Ciao.

Hi Ogelthorpe

I would urge caution to, as far as seeking out reviews the same as any other product you buy on the internet...

But frankly my official apple battery has turned out to be a nightmare and an inferior product, and my replacement wasn't slightly less, it was £50 less (half the price) and it hasn't inflated like the old one and performance is good.

I'm not having a go at you, i agree you should be cautious when buying them, but frankly i don't see the point in buying premiumly priced Apple ones when they were the problem for many people in the first place.

Some things i think are worth buying from apple, others just seem like overpriced resale items... RAM is another one.

Thomas Brierly, greetings:  I am pleased for you that you have had success with your £50 battery.  There is nothing wrong paying a lesser price as long as one expectations are met.  Sadly 'Caveat Emptor' is still the rule in business all too often and when prices are too good to be true, they usually are.  I suspect most of the replacement battery problems stem fro purchases from eBay sellers and the like. 

Batteries are probably the least reliable component in a MBP and all too often they fail well before the normal life expectancy.  I had that happen with the replaceable battery in my 2006 MBP.  It lasted just about two years before it got pregnant (twins I believe) but the replacement battery that I go received from Apple (gratis!!) still is functioning well into its fourth year.

I am more than willing to purchase items for less than Apple sells them so long as the vendor is reputable and/or that I am 100% certain that the product is exactly what is being advertised.  RAM and HDDs fall into that catagory.

I suspect that our views are, if not the same, at least very similar in this area.

Regards.

Ciao.