PF tells us: <<Note to the uninitiated -- I have NEVER had a board or component failure on a Mac (up to 15 years old) other than on monitor blowing and a dead MB from repeated lightening strikes on my phone line, and in that case I only lost the serial ports, everything else works fine!>>
I don't consider myself uninitiated and I've had some expensive Mac troubles. My first machine, bought 1/95 was a 7100/66 (which couldn't do much) and chugged along for 13000+ hours with no problems. Sort of a 240D, I suppose. I replaced in about five years ago with a G4/867 (Quicksilver, I think, perking along on OS 10.4.6) and it hasn't been a paragon of reliability, exactly. About a month after the warranty expired, the Superdrive (Apple's term) went nuts, scratching up some software discs to the point of destruction. That was expensive. Then last year the hard drive started making random clicking and clunking noises. The local Mac expert (a long time PCA friend) said the drive was about to fail and I should be sure everything is backed up and for God's sake don't turn the thing off until I bring it to the shop. A new drive and larger drive solved that problem. It also has an ongoing problem, losing it's clock time when off. It's not the battery and I'm not going to fix it because the clock sets itself when I log on to Comcast, anyway. I wouldn't mind speeding up the machine because of my flight simulator, X-Plane, but I have no interest in a G5, pre or post Intel. RLE/Seattle
