iBook Annoyances

I have the same complaint about the battery not being flush!!! I took my ibook to the apple store and looked at the display laptops, and half of them have the same problem. I told them that one of the selling points of the ibook was that there were no protruding parts that would snatch, and he just looked at his collegue with a "can you believe this girl?" expression on his face.

The only app that consistently shuts down in MSN messenger, and I haven't had the spacebar problem either. Maybe you should get that checked.

Other than that I love my iBook and am having fun learning all the little things I can customize.

I've had my new ibook for around a month. same thing with my battery.

As for the space bar, same thing here. there is actually a thread on it and is happening to many people. one guy on the thread was able to flatten out some internal wires if i'm not mistaken.

i haven't had any issues with programs shutting down. have only crapped out once or twice. you might want to up your memory. I've got 1g

I've just grown to accept the battery issue. It's only a couple of millimeters anyways. The AIM issue was persistent no matter what I did, so I just switched chat clients. No issue with the spacebar!

Seems odd you are having so much trouble with the software such as safari and AIM, try alternatives like;

Camino instead of Safari http://www.caminobrowser.org
and
Adium instead of AIM http://www.adiumx.com

maybe you should consider some more RAM as this will surely solve your beachballing problem,saying this 512mb should be enough to avoid beachballs....

The beachballs can partly be credited to the laptops slow hard drive which will most likely cause this is all laptops as there drives are not as quick as there 3.5" counterparts....

Anyway hope you enjoy the iBook im sure it will all work out,

SHadOW

Replace AIM with Adium, that may do the trick. As for software problems not much you can do except wait for patches.

You could consider upgrading your RAM to help with the beachball.