*sigh*

[rootofnewt]

We shipped Tom's G4 off for motherboard replacement--our dime, since we bought this one off my brother and no applecare by now. It came back, but they forgot to replace the other things mentioned (loose power port, damaged CD player). So the box came back ship it off to fix those.

I haven't shipped it yet because I'm sick and need distraction.

Well, the screen's flickering again. So now I'm using it until it dies again. If the motherboard's being bitchy, best it happen while their parts/labor are guaranteed, no?

I hope future generations of apple laptops don't have these crazy logic board issues. I had a G3 that had several covered repairs under their extended warranty, they eventually replaced it with a G4, in fact. Sadly, that G4's hinge was no match for a toddler's penchant for pulling. *sigh* It's a very nice little storage drive now. The screen is now non-functional.

And I can't get my stuff off that hard drive until this machine is actually fixed. Gah.

Comments

[mmymoon.livejournal.com]

... So, do Apples just break ALL THE TIME, or are the users just all constantly shocked when they do?

Not that I don't feel your pain -- this new laptop is SO GOOD because I suffered from a malfunctioning keyboard for SO LONG (although that's kind of my fault for pulling keys off a laptop; I use the silicone covers religiously now) -- but seriously, everyone I know that uses iPods or laptops seems to have them break ALL THE TIME. You'd think after the third replacement iPod, you'd just... you know... switch to something else? (And I find iTunes to be the most annoying software ever developed, but that's just me -- I don't GET non drag-and-drop media players. Unless they've changed that about iPods in the last few years, but that made nooooo sense to me.)

The smug ads seem kinda weird to me, since pretty much every time I hear an Apple product mentioned on my flist, it has to do with it failing horribly and the owner being full of woe. I thought the whole Apple coolness factor should've worn off by 2001, though.

[mmymoon.livejournal.com]

Not your iPod, although uh, I know yours is broken, but you've had yours for a long time so that's reasonable. But I have literally seen whole dramatic story cycles of "Yay iPod of Cool iPodness! Hooray! Oh it broke! All my playlists! Wah! So I got a new one! Yay!" several times, from different people.

I mean, my tech breaks, but I'm not... as... ah... emotionally attached. Naming electronics seems like asking for fate to smite you.

[krasota.livejournal.com]

Yeah, our iPod just hit battery EoL. Totally normal. It never really broke, either.

As for drag-and-drop, ours has always been that way in the computer>ipod direction. They try to limit ipod>computer sharing, so I downloaded a workaround program. That was annoying, though.

I think that one of the problems folks are experiencing with the g3/g4 generation of ibooks has to do with the lead-free solder. It's not as durable. My logic board problems with the G3 was a well known problem and Apple did pull through. I don't know if G4s have had the same problem or not. My own G4 problems were totally due to toddler mishandling, and that's my own fault. Except for the faulty power power cord damaging the power port, but they fixed that, too. I don't know what this computer's problem is, unless it's one of the earlier G4s suffering from the same logic board problem that plagued the G3s.