[Ti] What A Lemon

[Ben Cheng]

I can not stress this enough but always, _always_ buy AppleCare for 
notebooks.  Unless you're already replacing your notebook every year 
and a half or so, AppleCare is worth its weight in gold after the first 
year.  In my second year, my TiBook 500 has had its DVD drive replace 3 
times, screen replaced twice (within 2 weeks of each other because of a 
recurring vertical line), motherboard replaced once, and the top shell 
(around the keyboard area) replaced once.  I practically have a new 
computer with all the times this thing's been in the shop.      I could 
still conceivably send it to the shop one more time for these hairline 
cracks I have on both my screen hinges but they don't seem critical at 
the moment.  If I hadn't extended my AppleCare I probably would've 
spent enough to buy 2 more Powerbooks.  My hard drive has been solid 
though.  Recently replaced it and it's still working fine as my 
external backup.

-Ben

On Monday, March 24, 2003, at 12:02 PM, Ken wrote:

> My wife has had an original TiBook 500 for 2 years.  Boy, do I wish we 
> purchased AppleCare at the time.  In two years we have gone through 3 
> hard drives.  The third one just died this weekend.  All of them 
> sounded the same when they died - clunk, clunk, clunk.  Also, the 
> screen has 2 vertical lines on it.  There are 2 other people where she 
> works that have had screen problems also.  Is there some type of 
> design flaw with the early TiBooks?  This is ridiculous!
>
> Now don't get me wrong.  I love Apple products and will continue to 
> buy Macs.  My wife has a B&W G3 at home and I have a G4/400, Beige G3 
> and a 9600.  I still have my original Mac Plus in storage (never 
> giving that up).  I'm just frustrated by all the TiBook problems we 
> have had.
>
> -= Ken =-