User customizable covers are already available for some powerbooks/books: http://www.macskinz.com/

How often do you run the cron jobs? If your computer is turned off every night and started up in the morning, chances are (unless you have changed the settings for cron) that they …

Try running top in terminal or use Activity monitor to see what is using your cpu%. I have seen WeatherPop go whacked and suck up all remaining cpu time. For that reason, I quit us…

MacJanitor seems to have cleared up the issues. I put my laptop to sleep at night so I was missing all cron jobs. thanks.

you can also change the time the cron jobs run. No need to add yet another program to do this for you in terminal, you can type: sudo pico /etc/crontab then put in the admin pa…

Yes. My Rev b has been rock solid. The only problem I had was self-induced when I put in bad ram. I am using this machine a lot too and it has taken many road trips and few air …

My 17" is great, no issues, i bring it back and forth from work, whip it out at various B&N/starbucks, as well as at friend's apartments, city parks, and skateparks.. Although…

My rev A 17" is perfect. Absolutely no issues since I received it in May '03.

mine is great too, not one problem at all... Rev A too.

No problems on my PB17 Rev. A. The sizzling stopped after a few weeks; one Kernel panic in 6 months. Installed the firmware upgrade for my Superdrive-no problems there either.

My pb is a week and 1 day old and seems completely perfect! ...*knocks on wood in fear of whitespots*

Quote: Originally posted by Tantrum: My pb is a 5days old and seems completely perfect! ...*knocks on wood in fear of whitespots* I spoke too soon, bought my power…

Current: My PB 17" Rev A is 100% perfect Past: PBG4 15" 1GHZ/SD 100% PBG4 15" 800MHZ 80% - some paint flaking PBG4 15" 667MHZ 100% PBG4 15" 500MHZ 100% PBG3/500 100% PBG3/400 100%…

Well ive had experience with all three Aluminium powerbooks, and currently own the 12' Rev B and 15' 1,25Ghz. I sold the 17' 1,33Ghz two weeks ago. Heres a summary : 17' 1,33Ghz (…

My 17" REV A has screen arthritis in cold weather. There are pinstripe vertical black lines that fizzle when I first turn it on or wake it from sleep, but this clears up in a few m…

I got my rev A 17" in April? can't remember. But it's been almost a year of using it at work, home, everywhere I go. I've had absoultely no problems at all. It has never let me dow…

Probably. If they see any attempt at self repair or of any tampering with the case it probably if not most likely will void the Apple Care.

Just tell them that's the condition it was in when it was returned. Other than the screw, it's the truth. One screw should not equal a warranty void.

It does sound like you're SOL, however, have you tried backing out the screw with a torqued screwdriver? The extra leverage won't hurt with the screwdriver. Hope this helps, othe…

Quote: Originally posted by fizzlemynizzle: Just tell them that's the condition it was in when it was returned. Other than the screw, it's the truth. One screw should …

I actually did the same thing to my 17 rev B. It came back from repair and a few things weren't working so I'd figure I could open the case and seat a few cables. Upon putting it b…

In any case, being that I had the uneven illumination problem BEFORE I touched the PowerBook, will Apple repair it again if the problem returns? Obviously it was a problem before I…

I just stuck one side of the tweaser (the smal ones that come with standard computer toolkits) in the hole and dug it out. All repairs done by Apple has a 30 day warranty on the re…

You just have to stay stubborn in defending your claim that the screw was there all the time. Believe me, they heard worse stories, but at least it wont get the wrong ball rolling …

Quote: Urgent! Did I completely screw up my warranty? Was that a pun? But yeah, screwing with your laptop like that is risky while the thing is under warranty.…