Looks like I am also a victim of the iBook G3 logic board problem.
Tuesday night. Surf the web with my iBook + Airport, and before I headed to bed, I closed the lid to put it to sleep as well. Wednesday morning, woke up, opened the lid to wake my iBook up as well. The computer came back to life as hard drive whispered its spinning sound, but the screen was blank.
“That looks weird.” So I tried to reboot my iBook by holding down the power button to force it to turn off, and then pressing it again to restart it. The POST chim rang out, but still nothing on the screen. D’oh.
I have previously heard of the infamous iBook logic board issue, but was quite happy that it has never happened to me after 18 months of usage. I thought my iBook was one of the better yield, but I guess I was wrong.
So today I dropped my iBook to NextByte near Wynyard to have it fixed. The shop assistant was quite surprised that mine was a 18 month old G3, as the plastic body was not that scratched. In fact it has scratches all over the place, but he must have seen worse. Anyway, the repair was quoted to be around 2 weeks. That’s 2 weeks without my Mac.
:(
it would seem that these days, 18 months is about the time a laptop would fail … either with motherboard or harddisk. mine did and many other colleagues also …
But I have been using my Dell Inspiron, day in and day out, for 1350+ days! Well, I did had a dead hard drive but a replacement is self-servicable on this big chunky Inspiron 8000, so it only had a few days of down time.
Too bad that work has decided to upgrade mine to a new Dell notebook with Pentium M Dothon 1.7Ghz and 1Gb of RAM, as we now need to run XP Pro :)
hohoho … 1G on a notebook …
quite an amusement to go to an Apple store.
today I finally saw the new iMac G5. Very very sweet indeed. NextByte in CBD is very busy – people coming in and out all the time with their latest toys. But the funnies thing is – the customer services desk are all running 17″ eMac, running Mac OS X, but running their ugly gray Windows database application inside a Virtual PC!
Ha! :)
Well, what does that tell you about database on Mac?
No. Database on Macs are wonderful – FileMaker + heaps of other opensource RDBMS.
But that does tell me something about NextByte…
One of NB owner is a frequent visitor in Whirlpool and he gave me an Apple T-shirt last time. I went to that store you went to and picked it up from there.
Not that I noticed what DB they were using :)
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