In "g3 ibook cd drive ejects" Dan wrote:
A G6 ?! Akin to this: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/610326/PowerBook%20G5.jpg
and Bruce replied:
You needed to show it hovering above the table via the exhaust of it's fans. "It's a laptop! It's a personal hovercraft!" 8-P
sigh. My housemate's 1.5-GHz PowerBook G4 -- purchased in Sept 2004 -- bit the dust late last week. It got HOT then froze. Did the norm diags, resets, etc... It runs great in a heavily air conditioned room, with a fan on HIGH blowing directly under the case and across the top/ upper right quadrant of the keyboard. But if you back off on the fan in any way - the PB quickly gets boiling hot, then freezes.
Going to open it up shortly. Kindof hoping the problem is just that the fans are clogged with cat fur. But given the age of the beastie, it's probably something more serious. (No data loss, of course, as we have good backups).
My housemate "celebrated" the macdeath by driving to the Apple Store in DE. She bought a new 13" 2.3-GHz MacBook Pro i5 and an iPad 2. She's having a blast with it, learning iWork and Bento. And playing Angry Birds on the iPad. :)
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