The box is here, I'll be shipping the laptop out Monday. There are 3 reasons I didn't ask for a replacement. First, it'd be very hard to get stuff like my ram, airport card, and …

I am waiting on a call from Apple to confirm when I will be getting my replacement PowerBook. My TiBook is 2 years, 9 months old and has been repaired a total of 7 times. In a fou…

Quote: Originally posted by Quinn: I am waiting on a call from Apple to confirm when I will be getting my replacement PowerBook. My TiBook is 2 years, 9 months old and …

When my Tibook was replaced they gave me the option to pay to upgrade to the high end model. My Tibook will hopefully arrive by Friday. It'll be really nice if it never has to go…

Well, Apple just called. They are giving me a 1Ghz AiBook for my 500Mhz TiBook. I offered to pay for an upgrade to the 1.25Ghz model but they said they can't do that. I'll have to…

Yes, they can do that. You'll have to get customer relations to do it though. Keep arguing if necessary.

Quote: Originally posted by scoot: Yes, they can do that. You'll have to get customer relations to do it though. Keep arguing if necessary. This is Apple Europe. T…

Quote: Originally posted by Quinn: This is Apple Europe. The woman agreed that it made no sense but its not something they do in Europe. Am trying to see if my Apple dea…

[quote]Originally posted by qnxde: They should give you a 1.25. The 500mhz was the high end from that model. If it was a tibook 400, then they would be correct in giving you a 1ghz…

Well, they are throwing in a free Airport Extreme card as well. And I'm getting a new machine shipped from Taiwan so I'm happy. One question that I forgot to ask and I don't have …

Quote: Originally posted by Quinn: Well, they are throwing in a free Airport Extreme card as well. And I'm getting a new machine shipped from Taiwan so I'm happy. One q…

Sorry, didn't realize you were dealing with Apple Europe. Yes, you can get AppleCare on the new one. You can also try to get a pro-rated refund on any AppleCare plan you have on t…

I turned on my Pismo this morning, and the nice apple logo came on as usual. You know how there is a delay before the spinning circle thingy? (Do you know what im talking about??) …

If you have access to one, try installing it into a external firewire case. Then you be able to use Disk utility to check the S.M.A.R.T. status. If it doesn't pass S.M.A.R.T. it…

The drive is 2 years old. Fujitsu. I will look into the firewire drive idea. Thanks. Is there any other way(if i could not get a hold of one), to test it to see if it is dead? I ha…

Unfortunately, the fact that you can't boot from CD says that your hard drive's controller board is failing. Being the master device on the bus, the hard drive instructs the CD-RO…

It will take a power user, to help, but I had a problem where my 15" powerbook would not boot, from the hard drive, and refused to the CD too. I don't remember the keys I had to u…

Quote: Originally posted by robinpow: It will take a power user, to help, but I had a problem where my 15" powerbook would not boot, from the hard drive, and refused to …

If you can't boot from CD (The OSX install CD would be the best), it might be the IDE controller being defect, but it might also be something else. I have a Lombard, which is simla…

What's the best/cheapest place to buy ram right now...wanting to upgrade.

Quote: Originally posted by Minty Fresh: What's the best/cheapest place to buy ram right now...wanting to upgrade. It may not be the cheapest RAM on the market, bu…

Looks good....a 512 stick is $119...not bad. Thanks for the link!

You can also try http://www.crucial.com/ they have some good deals.

For crying out loud, someone posts this same question every week, in every forum, and it's always the same answers. Just skim the topic listing and you'll find the answers! tooki

I am more confused than ever to which laptop I will buy, with all the talk about the ibook problems I am scared to buy one and I am also scared to buy a powerbook So I have create…