The audio died almost right away. The university shop diagnosed that as a
logic board failure, but said Apple wouldn't cover it under warranty. Now
the thing won't boot. University shop diagnosed that as a dead logic
board, again not covered under the Apple extended logic board replacement
program. It should have died 4 months earlier. In between there was all
sorts of flakiness. Not running more than a few minutes off
battery. Sometimes not booting correctly etc. Dead hard drive.
These POS ibooks have a long history of having logic boards replaced 3-4
times under warranty. I am not much interested in ever buying another
Apple piece of hardware again. They USED to build good stuff. I have
apple II that are like 240Ds They will never die. My old PB 165 will
still chug away. Too slow for most things. I even have a 6-7 year old
Dell laptop that is still running, and that is really something.
It used to be that Shreve got old (new, outdated) logic boards, but none
for ibooks are available. I cant see spending 300 on ebay for a board to
fix a computer that is worth maybe 350 IF it was running.
The wallstreet was a good model. I have a beatup wall street that i bought
used. It works ok.
At 08:20 PM 1/11/2006, you wrote:
Loren:
The best place to look is eBay -- I see logic boards there all the time.
I've always avoided new Apple products, buy them used (currently using
a rather tired G3 beige and a Wallstreet Powerbook).
Have you done any research on the G3 700? Apple products can be
somewhat tempermental, and the fixes are sometimes software versions
rather than hardware, or improper configurations.
What has been going wrong with the iBook?
Peter
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