It's not "just a few laptops". There are petitions with over 5,000 signatures of people whose laptops have died and if you google "iBook G4" and "logic board" most of what you will see is boards full of people whose iBooks have died within 13 months. A laptop that you spend over $400 in general should not break after only one year of use. You'd be singing a different tune if it were yours.
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It's not "just a few laptops". There are petitions with over 5,000 signatures of people whose laptops have died and if you google "iBook G4" and "logic board" most of what you will see is boards full of people whose iBooks have died within 13 months. A laptop that you spend over $400 in general should not break after only one year of use. You'd be singing a different tune if it were yours.