>[cut] >... The iBook tongue is invisible when the lid is open. As it >closes, gravity gently eases the tongue out and down, When it gets >close to the latch slot, a magnet gently eases it down and "sucks" >it into the latch securing it and closing the circuit to be sure the >cpu stays asleep. [cut] Gravity doesn't work like that where i live. The tongue is brought into place by magnetic attraction. No comment on the retracted "invisible" tongue. -- playfully, zlf If it isn't broken, you haven't looked closely enough.