Mac Forum / General / Portable Macs / April 2004

My G3 i Book went in for three logic board repairs in my first 8
months of ownership. The last time, I was told that if it failed
again, Apple would "explore other options."

I had another failure a couple of weeks ago, and when I called
AppleCare, they told me that since I had experienced three prior
failures, they'd give me the option of one more repair, or exchange
for a comparable model.

I had a 700 MHz G3 iBook with a CD-ROM drive, a 20 GB hard drive and
an AirPort card. At the time I purchased it, it was the low-end iBook.

The low-end model is now a G4 iBook with a Combo drive (CDRW/DVD-ROM),
a 30 GB hard drive and AirPort Extreme. So I'm basically getting a
much better computer - but I have to cancel AppleCare, get a pro-rated
refund, and then apply that to AppleCare on the new computer.

Unfortunately, I am sacrificing OS 9 bootability. One of the reasons I
bought the iBook last year was because it was the last Mac laptop to
boot into OS 9. Thankfully I kept my old Lombard for stuff that
requires OS 9 and is flaky in Classic (Quark 4, PageMaker 6.5, Acrobat
4) and I'm thinking about finding a used Pismo, which has onboard
FireWire and is G4 upgradeable, to retain OS 9 functionality in a
faster machine.

But I guess the faster iBook with a 50 percent larger hard drive,
802.11g and a CD burner, vs. OS 9, is a worthwhile trade.

(Oh, I saw one of the Mac catalog stores still has some G4 dual boot
desktop models available -- believe they are the Mirrored Door
versions, if anyone's interested).

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H.B. Elkins -- Beattyville, KY
http://www.millenniumhwy.net hbelkins(at)mis.net

"There's no doubt he's the best race driver in the world."
--Dale Jarrett, on the late Dale Earnhardt

Go Big Blue (Kentucky Wildcats)! Go #15 (Michael Waltrip, NAPA Chevy)!

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