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Apple iBook G4 Design Flaw Proven

Posted by kdawson on from the sudden-iBook-death-syndrome dept.

empaler writes "Apple has long denied service on iBook G4s whose screens went black after just over one year of use, denying that there was any error. But now, the Danish National Consumer Agency has released a report proving that the error is due to a design flaw. So far, the only news site picking this up is The Register (unless you understand Danish). The Danish Consumer Complaints Board says that Apple needs to get a grip and acknowledge this error in the rest of the world. The NCA also has some photos from the report (explanations in Danish, but easily comprehensible from context)."

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  1. Yup. by L4m3rthanyou · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I've seen this exact problem with a floormate's ibook. She had had it "repaired" more than once, and it still failed soon afterward. She came to me when the screen died on her while she was writing a paper.

    I plugged it into my CRT, allowing her to email the document to herself and work on it elsewhere.

    Nice to see reliability from a "premium" company like Apple. I'd like to see how the ifanboys turn this thread into a Mac circle jerk...

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    One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces.
  2. Re:Da button.... by VWJedi · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    If you stare at that button for a while you will realize that the circle-and-vertical-line symbol looks a bit like a hand that is flipping you a bird. This realization becomes especially irritating right after you have just lost a significant amount of work or to a kernel panic or a crashed window manager.
    This begs two questions...
    1. Why do you experience "kernel panics" and "window manager crashes" so frequently when I've never experienced any on the Macs that I run (an old iMac (white G3) running 10.3.9 and an XServe (G4) running OS X Server 10.3.9)?
    2. If you experience so many problems, why do you do "a significant amount of work" without saving?