[iBook] Re: iBook Parts (cracked?)

[Todd Doerpinghaus]

Thanks Scott,

We bought 5,000 ibooks and this issue just started
coming up.  The pictures are very helpful.  I don't
have any in my classroom that have cracked, but I will
pass this on.  

Todd
900mhz g3 14" dual usb


--- Scott Warren <sw at shelton.org> wrote:

> Here is the thread I started about the cracks on the
> corners of the 
> iBook in the gray "band" around the edge.  I was
> told that this is not 
> covered by apple care.  I thought it odd that 38
> computers get the same 
> kind of crack in the same place and no other place
> on the same 
> material.  No way 38 people treat a computer the
> same way.  We 
> submitted this to apple and never heard back from
> them.
> 
> Only 1 or 2 people responded to this letting me know
> their single 
> laptop showed signs of something similar so I am not
> sure what to think 
> about this.
> 
> On Sep 7, 2004, at 12:48 PM, Scott Warren wrote:
> 
> > 85 brand new iBook laptops were bought July of
> 2003, we "discovered" 
> > the series of cracks when all of the laptops were
> returned to our 
> > office May 2004... 38 out of 85  have the "crack"
> and most of them 
> > would be classified as hairline.  It is in the
> gray band that goes 
> > around the rim and is right on the corner.  I
> posted some pics that 
> > our service tech took of the cracks.
> >
> >
>
http://www.vzavenue.net/~lacrosse/ibook/ibookcracks.html
> >
> > Not knowing how or why this happened, I can not
> say if anyone else 
> > will get these cracks, maybe I had 38 duds, maybe
> these 38 people did 
> > something to the computers here, thus I am curious
> if anyone else has 
> > seen this issue else where.
> >
> > On Sep 7, 2004, at 11:58 AM, Jonathan Newman
> wrote:
> >
> >> Are these on the BRAND NEW iBook G4s? I ~just~
> bought a new 12" 1GHz 
> >> model, are you telling me I'm gonna be getting a
> crack in it soon??
> >>
> >>
> >>  - Jonathan
> >
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