>And as for the stores: I used to go to the Mac store as well, but I got >sucked >into the cult. do you think I should bring Mac store into it? Is your ibook still on warranty? If so and if the Apple Store has been jerking you around since last October, I probably would see if the Mac Store would honor your warranty, I think there's also another dealer down by Greenlake , they were called Westwind Computers they used to work mainly on Macs, I've bought from them in the past. But I haven't been by there lately. Also another real informative list is the IOMUG list in Yahoo groups. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/iomug