On Mar 12, 2010, at 10:26 AM, Simon Royal wrote:
I was talking to a Mac friend of mine - a very knowledgeable and well respected individual - and he said, that personally if it hasn't failed by now that it isn't going to. That not all of them suffered the failure and after such a long time of this one being ok that he thought it unlikely it would fail now.
He's right. Despite the fervent belief of many on these lists, this was by no means a universal problem with the iBook. Across the entire production run the problem probably affected fewer than 10%, if that many. Only Apple likely has any realistic estimate of how many systems were affected.
I'm absolutely certain that someone will chime in with some random anecdotally-driven number like "Well <huff> *I'VE* owned 17 of them and 15 failed!!" to which I say the usual: "The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'". Well, that and "Remind me to never lend you my laptop!"
Apple did have a repair program for the affected iBooks, which means that the numbers were not insignificant, but there's no way it affected *all* of them, or even the greater proportion of all of them. If it were Apple would have been likely have been forced by regulation or lawsuit to recall all of them.
He's also probably right that if it doesn't display the problem now, it's probably not affected by it. "Probably' because the manner in which the machines were handled affected how likely they were going to have the problem.
If it was routinely picked up by the front corner and carried around open, it's a LOT more likely to have suffered the issue than if it was treated like fine bone china throughout it's life.
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