iBook G4 1.2GHz

[xodlike]

I'm sorry, I'd love to try and reach steve jobs, but even if I was lucky enough for him to read a email from me, it'd be in about 30 years. :-p

In any case, after a SIX hour phone call, I finally get some relief. They say a 256MB RAM upgrade and 1.33GHz instead of 1.2GHz, is recompensation - to be honest, I don't think so, but I give up. This is too much work, more than it's worth, and I caved in.

I'll have a new iBook within 2 weeks. ^_^;;

I'm serious, if the new one even... freezes... ONCE.. I do not care if its a effing zombie process, if it dares to do so - it will be thrown RIGHT out the window.

[divinatum]

i doubt steve reads it, but in 2-3 days and you do get a responce back from executive relations. I've done it twice

[xodlike]

A bit upset. Haven't had anything emailed to me since I made the phone call, and they told me I'd be emailed some Fed EX trakcing numbers, so I can send me laptop to them. That was 6 days ago.

Wow.. Just. Wow... Can anyone call this quality?

[Goldin]

if only i'd seen and read some of this before ordering my sister a 12" ibook. should be arriving soon, i hope i don't get the same probs :(

[MonkeyClaw Veteran]

goldin, i wouldnt worry, this isnt very common, i know many many people with the same laptop having no problems at all.

xodlike, im very sorry to hear about all your troubles, its gotta suck for ya, good luck!!! :)

[Nose Nuggets]

hay man i work for an apple certified service and sales store in cali (i do the pc side of things here) but to answer your question about applecare

yes, it would help.

if you give them more money they will be more willing to give you a brand new system, or in your case an upgraded system if you hapen to be one of the few that get a lemon.

a log board replacement is common place for apple products but not 4.

as for hard drives, apple dosent make hard drives, and all hard drives suffer from the same ailments. just think about what it is for a second. in your laptop, its a couple mettal disks spinning at 4200 revolutions per minut the whole time yer computer is on. it has inherant defects.

thats why you do data backups

glad to hear they broke down and gave you a new computer. you should enjoy it a bit more then your lemon i book :)

[xodlike]

They haven't. They just said they would. And acted like ninja's and disappeared. Bah.

[MonkeyClaw Veteran]

well call them, and dont stop bothering them till they give u one, thats what i alwasy do.

[helix23]

if you give them more money they will be more willing to give you a brand new system,

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i dont think anyone should have to give apple money for ****ing up

everyone says it isnt their fault becuz they dont make the parts

its like a grocery store buying ****ty apples from a farmer, and when people complain, them saying it isnt our fault, we didnt grow it and if you give us some more money, we will give you some more apples

[rajputwarrior]

i dont think anyone should have to give apple money for ****ing up

everyone says it isnt their fault becuz they dont make the parts

its like a grocery store buying ****ty apples from a farmer, and when people complain, them saying it isnt our fault, we didnt grow it and if you give us some more money, we will give you some more apples

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he makes a good point, it's apple's fault

[Nose Nuggets]

well from a legal stand point all they have to do is keep repairing it if its under warenty.

like i said before the reason they where hesitant to give you a new one was because you dident buy apple care.

you need to call every day untill you get the info you want. which is a tracking # and confirmation of departure.

once its in your posetion you NEED to make sure its everything they said it would be and if it iset, call em up and be really ****ed.

[xodlike]

Argh. So you're saying if I get Applecare, they will treat me better?

Can't this be some form of discrimination? Did they ever mention this in the Applecare fine print, that people with AC will be accepted as trully having the problems they have, and getting those problems fixed?

[Nose Nuggets]

nope. its not writen anywhere cuz then it WOULD be descrimination.

come on man, be logitcal. if someone spends more money with you OF COURSE your going to treat them better. especialy with something like a service contract. cuz if you buy it, and nothing hapens to yur ocmputer thats a clear clean 160 bucks in there pocket.

it might not be right, its defanitly not fair, but its the truth.

i see it every day

[xodlike]

Bah. Still no reply. :/

I'm pondering Applecare, but I'm short on money as I just bought some new ram from Newegg. :-)

I feel mistreated. Argh. I want a working laptop soooo badly.. ><;;

Currently on this broken iBook, working on some stuff at school. Pretty much nearly begging it wont freeze, and saving to a server. I feel really pathetic. This isn't something I should expect from a mac.

[MonkeyClaw Veteran]

do u have a local apple store? if so go there, bring a tent and just camp out there. wait until they give you your laptop, it works heh

[xodlike]

^^LOL^^

God, that ain't a bad idea, it's inside a mall.

I can just see that.

Employee: Sir..you're going to have to get out.

Me: No.

Employee: .. Please remove yourself from the premisis..

Me: NOT TILL I GET MY ****ING LAPTOP REPLACMENT!!!

XD! It'd be so hilarious.

[MonkeyClaw Veteran]

i woudl do it hehe

[jeffeh]

hahaha they would probably be like hey free press heres three laptops

[Nose Nuggets]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

is it an actuall apple store? or is it a random computer shop that works on macs and sells macs.

like i said man, you should call them every day untill they give you a tracking #

[xodlike]

Good news, fellow neowinians :-D!

I have just recieved Fed-EX tracking numbers in the mail.

I will be shipping the laptop out very soon.

I hope I can have my laptop backbefore Tiger release. That'd be cool. In any case, It'll be a iBook G4 1.33Ghz, with 512MB of RAM :) It'll handle Tiger Nearly perfectly =D

Now I must retrun to typing my lit paper on these iMac G3's. Red flavor.. So slow, even with 320MB of RAM, they are still unbelievably slow. to the point where my typing is coming up 8 seconds after I physically type the words.

[Nose Nuggets]

good news! glad to hear it.

your not in the clear yet, you have to MAKE SURE its what they told you it is

remember.... they can still screw you

[xodlike]

Correction, iBook G4 1.33GHz. :-D.

Just got it in the mail today. Currently using it to post this!

Seems mostly error-less. I'm back with my Mac. :-D. Hopefully this one will last longer than it's predecessor.

[MonkeyClaw Veteran]

awesome so i was right, camping did work! hehehe

question, was that imac g3 running panther or os 9? my g3 runs it flawlessly, just a little slow but not that bad...

[xodlike]

The G3 was Running Panther, and surprisingly enough, I discovered it wasn't the Mac.

When I was in full reply mode, with my new iBook G4 1.33GHz, 512MB of RAM, and not running anything but Safari, I was typing laggishly. This surprised me beyond all reason.

I just decided to check out the Neowin front page for HTML errors. 530. :o.