[P1] dead LCD...boo hoo

[Bill Lockhart]

On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 09:22  AM, Brian Fish wrote:

> Hi all,
>  Just thought i'd share my bad fortune.  Yesterday, when waking my 3 
> month
> old iBook 600 (16 MB VRAM)from a screen effect, the screen went crazy 
> and
> started showing multi color vertical lines.  NNNOOO!!!!!!!  I forced 
> it to
> power down and took it home.  Each time I tried to boot up, the screen 
> would
> shortly start displaying vertical lines.  Apple said it would be 5-7
> days...which means i'll be without my baby (the iBook) for the whole
> weekend.  It's currently my only Mac.  How much does that suck?  What 
> could
> cause that?  I try to be as gentle as possible with it.  Now i'm going 
> to be
> extra paranoid when it comes to my iBook.  Just needed a shoulder to 
> cry on.
> Thanks.
>
> P.S.- To end it all off, I had to listen to Your Mac Life last night 
> on my
> Dell, which I don't like to touch as it is.
>
> -Brian
>

Look at it this way.
At least it's covered by AppleCare and won't cost you anything.

Bill