[Ti] Titanium G4 Pros and cons (experiences with G4 TiPB 667 Rev 2 and 12 12 inches TiPB Aluminum - rugged they AINT!)

[warwick teale]

plz be cool! it is an opinion only and I am a loyal APPLE customer that 
has bought 7 new macs over the past 2 years including this an 12 and a 
14inches Ibooks and an original CLAMSHELL ibook (1999( and several G4 
towers).. for self and with colleagues... I would not sledge APPLE.

If the original poster who asked about the G4 TiPB is still reading 
this diatribe, I for one would HIGHLY RECOMMEND he/she goes and buys an 
Apple POWERBOOK (Ti or whatever they are calling them now).  Dont wait 
for any G5 .. if you need it get it. They are wonderful, cool looking , 
fast and have good RESALE value .. but they are still fragile in my 
opinion.

I wanted to contrast the obvious fragility of the Ti with the old IBM 
laptops and even my friends old Black G3 POwerbook. the Ti and the 
12inch are indeed fragile.

Airports( as in "fei ji chang"): well.... I have been on 34 
international flights (excluding domestic) so far this year to more 
than 40 countries... YEs I travel a lot.. and frankly the american 
airports are the worst in the consideration scale for handling peoples 
stuff..(and their slow awareness of wireless compared to the rest of 
the world is frustrating when you have a TI with AIRPORT CARD in it and 
nothing to connect to except phone sockets).

As is pointed out by the previous post, a protective SLEAVE works just 
great to stop this. But YOU will notice (if you travel as I do) that 
the airport x-ray demons request you remove it from the bag and in 
recent times place it (the laptop) in the plastic tray.

Luckily my Ti667 has no cracks in it, but it was broken badly when it 
was dropped in a padded back (As I described).

There has been so man posts about the faults of the Titanium G4 PB by 
posters of this list (As an example), since they first came out but I 
see the same people still posting this list years later.. a sign that 
the TI is a cool laptop.

Apple will get it better each time.

w

On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 06:35 PM, Tarik Bilgin wrote:

>
> On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 10:57  am, <ursus at mac.com> wrote:
>
>>> - 3 weeks old and hardly taken any where, it has scuff marks and
>>> scratches on it.
>
> All i know is I had a totally similar experience in the first month of 
> owning a Ti. Cracks appeared form out of nowhere, and I am very 
> annoyed about it. You should see the hairline crack that appeared at 
> the mouth of the CD slot loader.
>
>> AND THIS IS APPLES FAULT....HOW?
>
>  It's Apples fault for making the bottom lip of it out of 6mm thick 
> weak plastic.
>
>
>> Remind me never to loan my 17 to you or your girlfriend.
>
> Calm down man. You are  getting  personal and aggressive imho.
>
>> When I go thru
>> security it is placed in a tray and x-rayed and never touched by any 
>> of the
>> attendants. I suppose they do sniff an occasional computer for 
>> explosives
>> and touch it because of that.
>
> All this will depend on the airport. I've been through around 5 
> airports several times (europe and near asia) but had no problems due 
> to the tight fitting sleeve. Without one I am sure it would have been 
> dented.
>
>
>
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