Well, the part will be hard to find on places like eBay, and pbparts.com doesn't even have anything that new listed yet. They have the 800Mhz logic board for about 650$, which means that the price being quoted by Apple is pretty close to what the part would cost through repair shops that will sell you the part by itself. My guess is that the cost without labor would be around 700$ for your particular model.
Buying a used/refurbished one would cost about 800-900$, making it more expensive than Apple's repairs. All-in-all, you are in the worst possible position. The unit is too new to even reliably get parts for without scrapping another unit with a dead screen or something. Unfortunately, I only have three suggestions: 1) Pay Apple to get it to be repaired, since it will be cheaper than buying a used/new replacement. 2) Buy a used replacement unit, or a refurbished unit. A refurb 1.2Ghz iBook is 800$ from Apple right now (I just checked their website). 3) Don't get her another laptop for awhile, and then pick option #2. Rather harsh, but an option. I am sorry for your situation, as it quite honestly is grim, since the cost to get the parts is quite high. I have been in that boat before, dropping a Lombard that I had sunk 800$ into over a period of 8 months to have it dropped and the screen crack (while going to college on a shoestring budget!). I hope for the best in your situation. - Adam -----Original Message----- From: G-Books [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laurent Daudelin Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2005 12:55 PM To: G-Books Subject: Opinion wanted I'd like to have opinions on what I should do with my daughter's iBook. Back in September 2004, I purchased a 12", 1GHz iBook for my daughter. All was well and she was very happy. About a month ago, she called me and said that her iBook was suddenly acting strangely. I went over and noticed that the display would only show vertical, narrow colored lines on a black background. I think I posted to the list about what the problem could be. In anycase, I asked her what happened and she said "nothing". I was a little suspicious because after having used a PowerBook for more than 3 years, I know that things cannot get wrong all of a sudden for no reason. I took the iBook, still under warranty, to the closest Apple store. The genius looked at it and said there was obviously something wrong with the main logic board and said they would have to send it to the Apple's repair facility. 3 days later, I've got an email from the Apple repair facility asking me to call them because they had discovered a problem. I knew that this wouldn't be good so I called my daughter immediately and told her what was happening and that before calling Apple, I wanted to have the truth. Sure enough, something wrong happened. She actually spilled water over the keyboard and since she didn't know what to do and didn't want to tell me, you can imagine the consequences. So, I called Apple and they confirmed what I had just found out. There was still liquid residues on the motherboard and this had shorted the display circuit. It seems that the computer is still working fine because I was able to boot it in target disk mode just fine. Anyway, Apple quoted me at over $750 to replace the motherboard of the iBook who was purchased for $1000. So, what are my options here? I thought I could maybe find a replacement for less and replace it myself, since I have disassembled various PowerBooks and was able to put them back together and they still worked. However, that would probably void her warranty. OTOH, my experience is that the warranty might not be that helpful and will be running out anyway in a few months. So, what are you people suggesting? Thanks for any opinion! -Laurent. -- ======================================================================== Laurent Daudelin Developer, Multifamily, ESO, Fannie Mae mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Washington, DC, USA ************************ Usual disclaimers apply *********************** -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... 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