iBook G4 life expectancy

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Hi all,

some years ago (summer 2006) I bought an iBook G4 (14", 1.42 GHz, 512 Mb RAM, 60 Gb HD) with Apple Care Protection. Until some months ago, I never had any problems and was a very happy Mac fan.

Unfortunately, my logicboard and airport card crashed recently and I kept getting the "You need to restart your computer" kernel panic messages. According to the Mac store helpdesk here in the Netherlands I need to replace them in order to have a functional iBook again (which will cost me over 800 euros since my Apple Care expired by now).

On different fora I read posts from other people with similar problems and the helpdesk in my town confirmed that this is a known problem with iBook G4.

Could some of you tell me at what point this problem commonly occurs? My computer is only 3 1/2 years old and (esspecially for the price I paid for it) I would expect that the life expectancy should be at least 5 to 6 years.

Thanks for your input !!

Piet
 
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I have owned a couple different iBooks, I had the same problem with my G4 1.33Ghz model and I also had a G3 with the dreaded video card problem. I know a lot of people still use iBooks,But I think for the most part the iBook was a failure in many ways (not trying to flame) but they were plagued with many problems, I would never buy again, Like I said There are many happy iBook owners.

To answer your questions about life expectancy I think you'll get many different answers, I can recall reading about iBook owners who had to have their logic boards replaced 2 and 3 times because of the above mentioned issues.
 

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