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radarbob
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First you must know that I am a Mac-fanatic of the first order and have used Macs since 1987...
Last year I bought a referbed iBook G3 900Mhz. W/in 6 months I sent it back for repair under warranty. Several months after that it died suddenly and my local mac repair guy said he would not fix it. Why? It needed a new logic board.
Seems the G3 iBooks about 700 - 900 mhz all had chronic logic board problems. Any replacement would be a referb board and who knows how long that would last. With or without a repair warranty this guy wouldn't fix it because there absolutely is no guarantee that it would last for any amount of time. In fact he said if someone gave me a board free, don't bother. There is simply no expectation that the thing would last.
So I guess the moral is beware of used G3 iBooks 700MHz thru 900Mhz (the end of the G3 line).
Oh, BTW, this would have been the 4th logic board on this machine!!!
Ironically my *original* iBook is still going after 7 years! Never went in for repairs.
Last year I bought a referbed iBook G3 900Mhz. W/in 6 months I sent it back for repair under warranty. Several months after that it died suddenly and my local mac repair guy said he would not fix it. Why? It needed a new logic board.
Seems the G3 iBooks about 700 - 900 mhz all had chronic logic board problems. Any replacement would be a referb board and who knows how long that would last. With or without a repair warranty this guy wouldn't fix it because there absolutely is no guarantee that it would last for any amount of time. In fact he said if someone gave me a board free, don't bother. There is simply no expectation that the thing would last.
So I guess the moral is beware of used G3 iBooks 700MHz thru 900Mhz (the end of the G3 line).
Oh, BTW, this would have been the 4th logic board on this machine!!!
Ironically my *original* iBook is still going after 7 years! Never went in for repairs.