On Aug 13, 2004, at 2:04 PM, MMB wrote:
Now I know that when booting from a CD does not change the green screen, I have a hardware and not a software problem and that is serious. I live and learn even after 16 years of owning Macs. (I am told it is unlikely to be a hard disc problem, but may be a video card, or loose cable - something inside the powerbook. And I thought paying for the top of the line would buy me sturdiness. Alas.)
It really sounds like a broken or dislocated video cable, and probably didn't have anything to do with the battery. It could have happened while being shipped about, and isn't normal.
However look at that Powerbook in your hands. It's small, light, thin and yet has a full, powerful computer, including an optical drive and a plethora of connections on it, as well as a keyboard and large LCD screen.
That's a LOT to pack into a package a few cm thick!
Laptops in general are fragile, no matter if you pay $300 or $3000, and the thinner and lighter the laptop is, the more fragile it is.
This is an unavoidable consequence of the engineering collision between our current materials technology, what people want in a laptop, how light they want it to be, and how cheap they want it to cost.
All are factors pulling the design in a different direction. Strength pulls against weight. Features pull against cost. Battery life determines weight. Case and frame materials determine cost.
Engineering design is much like a chinese menu: two from column A and one from Column B.
Short of building them out of unobtanium they're going to be more fragile.
Your 3400 is an old pickup truck compared to your TiBook's Jaguar XKE. The TiBook also weighs only 75% what your 3400 weighs for a system that several times as powerful.
That said, you're right. No one getting a new Powerbook should skimp on Applecare.
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