Hi,
Last year I bought a used 15" PB Titanium circa 2002, one of the first of its breed. While I love the thing, I can't really use it on my laptop as it zaps me with nasty electric shocks. The only way round this is to put it on a table and/or make sure I'm not barefooted (I live in the Middle East where the heat can be unbearable and you want me to keep my shoes on?).
Over the past year I've noticed the LCD has acquired permanent imprints of the keys from the keyboard which I'm not impressed with whatsoever. To make matters worse, I recently bought a clapped out IBM Thinkpad circa 1990's whose casing resembles a war zone, but whose screen is spotless, no indentations from the keyboard. Hmm. I'm impressed with the durability of these Thinkpads.
This tells me two things; the PB has a lid-closure not-enough-room-seperating-the-keys-from-the-screen design flaw; and the PB has an electrical design flaw. Well, at least mine has.
I'll be in the market for a replacement laptop in the coming year. I'd like to hear from any PB or iBook user in this forum, whose machine is circa 2004 or newer, if they suffer from similar complaints. I want to know if Apple fixed the two design flaws mentioned above in their more recent machines.
I'm really hot for a 12" PB. No use geting one if the thing is going to fry me each time I put it on my lap...and the new Thinkpad X41 is real tempting...
Thanks to anyone reading this for your time, especially if you reply,
Jezza
Last year I bought a used 15" PB Titanium circa 2002, one of the first of its breed. While I love the thing, I can't really use it on my laptop as it zaps me with nasty electric shocks. The only way round this is to put it on a table and/or make sure I'm not barefooted (I live in the Middle East where the heat can be unbearable and you want me to keep my shoes on?).
Over the past year I've noticed the LCD has acquired permanent imprints of the keys from the keyboard which I'm not impressed with whatsoever. To make matters worse, I recently bought a clapped out IBM Thinkpad circa 1990's whose casing resembles a war zone, but whose screen is spotless, no indentations from the keyboard. Hmm. I'm impressed with the durability of these Thinkpads.
This tells me two things; the PB has a lid-closure not-enough-room-seperating-the-keys-from-the-screen design flaw; and the PB has an electrical design flaw. Well, at least mine has.
I'll be in the market for a replacement laptop in the coming year. I'd like to hear from any PB or iBook user in this forum, whose machine is circa 2004 or newer, if they suffer from similar complaints. I want to know if Apple fixed the two design flaws mentioned above in their more recent machines.
I'm really hot for a 12" PB. No use geting one if the thing is going to fry me each time I put it on my lap...and the new Thinkpad X41 is real tempting...
Thanks to anyone reading this for your time, especially if you reply,
Jezza