Simon Royal writes,
<That is an interesting concept. How many members on this forum are
still using a G3 iBook? Mine is a 500Mhz model with a 15GB hard drive
and CD-ROM. Therefore I am thinking it is the second iteration the
'Late 2001' models and not the first version.>
I own and use a G3/800 iBook (30 GB HD, 640 MB RAM, built-in Airport,
CDRW/DVD-ROM). I bought it off FleaBay in July 2007. I've NEVER had a
problem with it (though by now I really should be looking into buying it
a new battery). At the time I bought it, I hadn't yet heard of the
Dreaded Graphics Failure.
<What do others think of the 'if it was going to fail it would have
done by now' theory. Really I am asking because I don't want to be
without my Mac again and I would rather look out for different Mac
portable - something like a Pismo or early TiBook - before this one
fails, if it is going to.>
A week after I bought my iBook, I dropped it, outside, on concrete
pavement (accidentally of course). Much to my shocked sh*tless surprise
it survived and continued to function beautifully. A couple months went
by and THEN I started seeing zillions of posts on this list about the
Dreaded Graphics Problem of G3 iBooks -- descriptions, diagnoses, how to
perform the surgery. I saved 'em all for posterity (so I'll have it
should I need it -- I can print it out for my mechanical genius
boyfriend hee hee hee), but also mentioned it to my boyfriend, adding,
"Remember when I dropped my iBook, do you think I may have asked for
that problem?" He actually replied almost word-for-word what you say in
this post: 'if it was going to fail it would have done it by now' -- and
he says the fact that my iBook survived that fall totally unscathed
proved it -- he thinks the force of the impact would have aggravated an
already existing issue.
Well it's the same iBook G3/800, I'm still using it pushing 3 years,
it's still wonderful, I don't know how many prior owners it had or
exactly how old it is, and it still runs beautifully. Maybe mine was
really OK, and maybe the theory IS good and MY iBook is "safe" and won't
have that particular failure, ever. What do YOU think? ;-)
Oh, and welcome back Simon. Yeah I remember you. So you took a "break"
from Macs? You sprayed yourself with Lysol, gargled with Listerine and
quarantined yourself for a month before coming back in here so you're
rid of those Windoze cooties, right? ;-)
~Yersinia.
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