Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a iBook Home Soon
A fascinating update on the fate of my poor broken iBook: it wasn’t the logic board, as I suspected, but the LCD Flat Panel that went tits up in a blaze of screen-freeze and mesmerising strobing stripes.
On the plus side, all my precious (but unbacked-up) data is safe. On the downside, the cost of a replacement screen, plus labour and VAT, is roughly equal to the current value of the computer. Bugger.
I must say, though, that being reunited with my elderly handbag iBook, which for a long while has been doing nothing but quietly and automatically downloading telly via Bittorrent, hasn’t been too bad. I’d forgotten what a great, fast-typing keyboard it has (awkwardly placed tilde key and tiny wee Return key aside), and its sluggish ways (the poor thing is somehow managing to run OS 10.3.8 with 128MB of RAM) have pushed me into the Terminal, in which I’ve been doing absolutely everything bar looking at the world wide web. Clever stuff, that command line business.
Ooft.. LCD repairs are nasty.
Something I’ve wondered in the past about Apple but, luckily, never had to encounter is whether they check with you before replacing the screen? Do they take it away, assess it and then say “Yeah, the LCD is broken. It will cost �xxx to fix, that OK?” or do they just take it away, fix it and return with a bill?
Luckily any repairs I’ve ever needed to my Macs have been under AppleCare. Pricey for a laptop but easily pays back in one repair as you’re no doubt aware ;)
Posted by Neil at 5pm on 12.05.05
Do they take it away, assess it and then say “Yeah, the LCD is broken. It will cost �xxx to fix, that OK?” or do they just take it away, fix it and return with a bill?
Dunno about Apple generally, but Scotsys called to ask whether I wanted the repairs carried out.
Posted by Jack at 9pm on 14.05.05
Hi, I have an iBook I’m trying to repair and was wondering if you were planning to sell yours for the parts, at least that way you can get something outta this…. Lemme know, Grant, YCosI_Gotta@hotmail.com
Posted by Grant Bradley at 8pm on 11.05.06
Sorry, e-mail address came out wrong…
(I’ll add spaces)
Y _ C o s _ I _ G o t t a @ h o t m a i l . c o m
Posted by Grant Bradley at 8pm on 11.05.06