[Ti] Titanium G4 Pros and Cons

[Gary Wall]

Hello all, I'm a PC to Mac switcher. Use my TiBook 667MHz everyday at 
work,  evenings and weekends at home or where ever I might be. It's been 
in twice in the 1/1/2 years I've had it. Once for the replacement of the 
CD-RW/DVD drive. And once for the bezel replacement.  Hmmm, do I find My 
TiBook fragile??? I don't think so, I guess I baby it, but I did so for 
my Compaq too. They both travel/ed daily to the office and then back 
home. My TiBook goes to Starbucks on the weekends and sits in my trunk 
while traveling. For the first 3 months I didn't have a laptop bag, 
(didn't fit in my Compaq bag), so I tossed it in my black shoulder bag, 
I used rolled up socks on the bottom of the bag for padding. If I could 
afford to get the 17 AlBook, I would, but alas no $$$.
Love my TiBook, and as for my first experiance with a Mac? I'll never go 
back to PC. (that's a lie actually, I work on PCs for a living).
Sorry for the long story. Have a great weekend.
Gary

On Friday, July 11, 2003, at 11:24  AM, Joseph Fisher wrote:

> The facts from the thread are;  (a) We love our TiBooks (b) whether we 
> want to admit it or not, they are fragile and we were, IMO "beta" 
> testers for this now defunct series (note; no more Titanium out of 
> Cupertino). Yes, that is Apple's fault, but Apple isn't my Mommie, they 
> are a going concern, a business and as such have a goal to make a 
> profit, battle competition,  and keep stockholders happy. This is 
> covered well in the great book  Apple the Naked Truth by Scott Kelby. 
> That said here's my experience
>
> My TiBook travels only a few miles a day in a padded CaseLogic case. I 
> use the after market velvet like cloth between screen and keyboard. It 
> is babied because I know from other users and my own experience, it has 
> to be. I live with that fact. I applaud those who travel the world with 
> their TiBooks,  but I'd dig up a late generation Pismo and put a new G4 
> CPU in it for my Road Warrior.
>
> After one year of my Ti DVI 800 MHz: My PROs are too numerous to list - 
> in short I love the TIBook even with it's CONs which are; It is a nice 
> little "lap toaster" especially running VPC.  It has been back to Apple 
> Care for repairs twice.  First - the notorious hinge break - snapped 
> off without notice. (And yes I knew how to carefully open the thing) 
> also had the paint bubbling issue beginning on lower casing - To my 
> delight  both hinges, lower case were replaced without hassle and to my 
> satisfaction. It hasn't happened again I think better paint and better 
> hinges?  Second incident came 2 months after the first, system wouldn't 
> power on and needed a logic board replaced. It was a long wait for the 
> the repair but seems to be fine now.
>
> NOTE; I am an Apple devote,  I  STILL love my TiBook wouldn't trade it 
> for my wife's Toshiba  (which is the same age, gets more abuse and has 
> never seen a repair needed!) Why wouldn't I trade? 1) screen can't 
> compare, 2) weight - her all in one weighs a ton 3) hate the track pad 
> 4) hate the keyboard 5) no slot loading CD 6) WiFi card hangs out the 
> side 7) Windows and temperamental Windows pgms vs. OS X Jaguar and the 
> ability to use OS 9  -  need I say more?
>
> Great thread folks -
> Joe Fisher
> Auburndale, Florida
>
>
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