For the record, it costs around $130 to replace the power port in an iBook at macUpgrades. Alan guesses that the price is probably similar at other authorized independent Apple resellers who do repairs.
This isn't pocket change, but it isn't $280 either. --Constance Warner Subject: Re: [CGUYS] Change in Terminology AND broken iBooks > Constance Warner sez: >> > There isn't any special tool to remove a broken prong >> > that's stuck in the power port of an iBook; this from >> > Alan Carroll of macUpgrades (disclosure: he's my >> > husband). The remedy: have the power port replaced What does Alan charge to replace the port? Apple has a flat rate of $280 to repair anything on an old Mac, hardly worth it for just the port on an old notebook. Betty ************************************************************************ * ==> QUICK LIST-COMMAND REFERENCE - Put the following commands in <== * ==> the body of an email & send 'em to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <== * Join the list: SUBSCRIBE COMPUTERGUYS-L Your Name * Too much mail? Try Daily Digests command: SET COMPUTERGUYS-L DIGEST * Tired of the List? Unsubscribe command: SIGNOFF COMPUTERGUYS-L * New address? From OLD address send: CHANGE COMPUTERGUYS-L YourNewAddress * Need more help? Send mail to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************************************************ * List archive at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/ * RSS at www.mail-archive.com/computerguys-l@listserv.aol.com/maillist.xml * Messages bearing the header "X-No-Archive: yes" will not be archived ************************************************************************
