On Aug 21, 2004, at 10:34 AM, BobGir wrote:
It was suggested that I read the very detailed Ars Technica report on this
model PowerBook, which I did and which I recommend to you.
<http://arstechnica.com/reviews/003/laptop/powerbook/pbg4-1.html>
Thanks for the ref - the lid-cupping he observed means that possibly my warped lid (up on one side, not both) wasn't from customer abuse, but from manufacture - but in any case, I noted all such problems before I picked mine up & chose it anyway! Saving $1000 was a major incentive :-) (Dead pixels would have been much worse, but there weren't - & aren't - any.)
I stick a cloth between keyboard & screen & that takes up the slack in there as well as protect & clean the keyboard.
Oh, I did have latch problems, not a manufacturing defect but from a problem that developed later. Does anyone else see this? Anyway, it stopped latching, first one side then both latches, but I pulled the battery & found you can access the back side of the latch there & clean it out (there was cat hair & sand-like crud in there) & it's been fine since.
Anne
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