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quanta,

Go for the fastest one, and get the biggest drive you can (don't skimp there, you WILL regret it later). Of the thousands and thousands of TiBooks that have shipped, I haven't heard of too many issues. Apple is very good about fixing them as well. DO get the AppleCare protection for your TiBook, it is well worth the money. Consider it this way, the BASE repair on an out of warranty TiBook is over $300 with logic boards costing about $800 and screens running over $1000. One repair pays for the protection. It also gives you that level of protection for a total of 3 years (two on top of the original one). You also get better service on the product (you are considered a priority since you spent the extra $$ to get the plan). The first run through, was a single day turnaround. I am hoping for the same this time, and with whatever needs to be replaced done to fix it right.

Apple also has very good phone support people that can call on higher level of tech's to make sure the issue warrants bringing the computer back to Apple. If a software fix is available, they point you there. I have only good experience with Apple's phone people.
 
Oh.....

how I'd love a GB RAM and a 60 hardrive in my puppy!!! truely outrageous!!!

I really hope they suprise you with something cool!!! We'll have to wait and see!!! And I'm not the most patient of people either!!:p

quanta the Ti Book is truely superb, on another post I've praised everything about it..... I think only the Rev A have had problems, first generation machines normally have iggly problems...... especially when they're as radical as the Ti Book....

I use mine religiously as does Alpha Tech by the sounds of it, infact most people who own one have probably never had problems with theirs at all!! these things just happen, and the experience hasn't put me off buying Apple, (just Rev A ones thats all!!!:D

I use mine for freelance design, DV and post work, also for lecturing work (teach all the previous!!) and plan on using it when I venture back into fulltime consultancy work in about a months time!!! And the machine has been a revelation!! And stood up very well to day to day pressure cooker that is New Media Land!!!

I'd say..... go buy one now!!! You won't regret it, and the latest ones are almost certainly more reliable than any PC laptop equivilent!!!

In short I love the Ti Book!!!:D And I think that all the other Ti Book owners would agree with me!!!
 
I just checked online and my TiBook is in repair. I intend to keep checking all night and hope that it will be shipping back to me for tomorrow.

As of tonight (just before 10pm), it has been picked up by Airborne so I should see it tomorrow morning. Gotta love how fast they turn them around. Now to see what they did to it when it arrives at work in the morning.
 
hey lets hope this time you get a 667 motherboard since all high tech companies cannot hold on to old gear a long time...each square inch in silicon valley, taiwan, or hong kong costs a company an excruciating amount of money each year and it does not bid well to use up a lot of space for old gear

when my rev a ibook power adapter gave out after a year, apple no longer had any left and sold the contract to vst who makes them and supplies old ibook users

the good thing is that this adapter is so much sturdier than the apple made unit and i was pleasantly suprised when i got my vst made ibook adapter for my old rev a ibook...so unexpectedly cool things happen since companies can't afford to keep too much backstock these days

in a kind of related note, i had a really cool ibanez electric guitar i had to return to the company for repair, and they sent me a brand new model with better specs on it (that was twenty years ago so even then, companies had problems keeping old stuff around

good luck
 
Bloody hell......

Apple US is on some serious s**t.... how quick turn around do you get!! That's blinding!!!

I keep my fingers crossed for excited tales of hot rod motherboards and graphics cards.... in the morning!!

Fingers crossed buddy!!!:)
 
It's back, again

I have it back already (was here by about 9:30 am). They replaced the power inverter as well as the screen (Display Clamshell Samsung). It looks better, but I have only been running for less then two hours now. The real test will see how well it holds up over the next week or so. If this fix is the final one, or if I need to call them again for additional.

I was happy to see it return, and the screen is new (I had made a boo boo last year which put a small ding in the screen). Maybe there was a bad batch of screens early in the TiBook's life (which would explain things), and the new one will not give me grief.

I am already feeling much better, since I won't need to power up the peecee at home until I want to play a game now. I can now get my daily OS X fix, and chat so much easier with people I know. :D
 
Originally posted by AlphaTech
quanta,

Go for the fastest one, and get the biggest drive you can (don't skimp there, you WILL regret it later). Of the thousands and thousands of TiBooks that have shipped, I haven't heard of too many issues. Apple is very good about fixing them as well. DO get the AppleCare protection for your TiBook, it is well worth the money. Consider it this way, the BASE repair on an out of warranty TiBook is over $300 with logic boards costing about $800 and screens running over $1000. One repair pays for the protection. It also gives you that level of protection for a total of 3 years (two on top of the original one). You also get better service on the product (you are considered a priority since you spent the extra $$ to get the plan). The first run through, was a single day turnaround. I am hoping for the same this time, and with whatever needs to be replaced done to fix it right.

Apple also has very good phone support people that can call on higher level of tech's to make sure the issue warrants bringing the computer back to Apple. If a software fix is available, they point you there. I have only good experience with Apple's phone people.
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that is so true...get the extra extended warranty

there are only two groups of users i know who don't need the warranties for over one year

1) high end mac gamers like the local gaming club where the users buy a new mac every six months or more and resell the old gear (which is not old at all) so they can buy a new mac only to sell it again and get a new one once steve jobs dons his jeans and black turtleneck

i know this one user who got a rev a graphite ibook, sold it and got a key lime ibook, sold that and got a ruby imac with all the bells and whistles and i wouldn't be suprised if they got rid of that and got a powermac...these people are into animation and they are not happy with the field yet and these animation types still see all the errors in a movie like final fantasy...hey, i still think aki ross was a babe and she looked real enough for me ;-) woo-hoo

2) high end graphics labs that redo macs more often than anybody...one minute they get g4s and months later, they are on quicksilvers, and some say they will get quicksilver duals soon
 
Re: It's back, again

Originally posted by AlphaTech
I have it back already (was here by about 9:30 am). They replaced the power inverter as well as the screen (Display Clamshell Samsung).
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Whoa, that is fast service, I'm impressed. How's the new screen? Any bad pixels?

Glad your back up and running.
 
Kewl.......

Fast..... thats an understatement!!!!

Glad to hear it's back..... Any prototype parts from the next generation Ti Books fitted then!!!???:D

Glad you're back in the realm of the OSX, the last thing you would have wanted would be to get used to Windows........ That'd be like crossing the streams!! This would be bad, very bad!! As Egon would say!!:D
 
Re: Re: It's back, again

Originally posted by dukestreet


Whoa, that is fast service, I'm impressed. How's the new screen? Any bad pixels?

Glad your back up and running.
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No dead pixels, and I am still evaluating the new screen. I will post more info tonight when I get home and have a chance to look at it under better lighting conditions. The lighting in my office is rather bright, and the screen always looks nicer when I am at home. I don't have as much light there, and it is almost all indirect (not beaming off my skull).

Gotta give props to Apple for the fast turn around.
 
As of right now, the screen flicker has not returned, and the brightness is pretty much even all across the screen. It looks like their last repair took care of the issues.

I am very glad to have it back. Considering that they have replaced the logic board, power inverter, keyboard and screen, there is not much left of the original computer. Now I just hope that I don't need to send it out again, and be without it for the three days or so that it takes. Well, two really, considering how I shipped it out Monday afternoon, and it came back first thing this morning. :D
 
Big thanks for all your help!

Thanks to all of you for your information... i do have some other questions though.

As a student i'm going to have to take a loan for all of the equipment which i want (which includes replacing my serial and scsi externals as well as a digital camera) so i have to limit my budget somewhat and i came up with a package at around 4500 dollars which included everything i wanted. i put a small HD in the TiBook and put the equivalent amount into a 120G external firewire for back up and storage. Do you all have any recomendations or warnings about firewire drives? i've heard bad things about some of the IBM drives but don't remember which ones.

Also i didn't include Applecare in my budget, so i guess that i'll have to review that too.

And if anyone knows where i can sell/trade my old system, that would be helpful as well.

9600/300, 4gig 128 RAM (12 RAM slots, 6 PCI)
Microtek SCSI 32bit scanner
Epson Photo Stylus (six color)
17" PT series Viewsonic aperture grille
Kensington Turbomouse Trackball

BTW it's good to know that you got your TiB back in pristine condition. i know what it's like to go through those kind of hassles, and i've got my fingers crossed on your behalf that this will mark the end of your ordeal.

q.
 
quanta, here's the advise that I can give.

Don't skimp on the internal drive. Do the opposit and get as much as you can handle. The internal drive is used for many things, a scratch disk is one of them (used by applications such as Illustrator and Photoshop along with others).

Get the standard amount of memory and then boost it right away by adding at least another 256-512MB. RAM is one of the things that a computer can never have too much of.

As for FireWire drives, I have one from VST that has done well by me. Granted it is only 30GB, but it is the slim one which gets everything from the FireWire bus (data and power). I also put one of my spare 40GB drives into a firewire enclosure, and have had good results there. I would say, get the extra space as you need.

Instead of spending the money on the firewire hard drive, get a cd-rw drive. That way, you can burn cd's of what you want to archive. CD's have a low failure rate, and hard drives can go bad. I have a QPS burner that is the second one I have purchased. I sold my 12x10x32x so that I could get the 24x10x40x, there was, and is, nothing wrong with the 12x, I just wanted faster. You can get the 24x that I have (brand new) for about $200 I believe. If you can spend a bit more, you can get even faster. Check and see what speed media you can easily get in your area. If only 24x is available in quantity, get a 24x burner. If you can splurge for the extra money, then shoot for the 32x. Just be aware that faster media probably costs more. I can burn a 700MB cd in about 3 to 3-1/4 minutes, which is plenty fast enough. I believe that the 32x burner does it in 3 minutes, or a little less. Unless you are burning many cd's you won't miss the little extra time, but you might miss the money you spent.

Do get the Applecare protection, unless you plan on getting rid of the system within a year or so. I will get that with every Mac I get now, especially since it just saved me gobs of money.

I am assuming that you are getting the 667MHz model, which I would as well. I always go for the top end on laptops, since they have lower speeds then the desktops. Also, that way, you don't feel too bad when the next speed bump comes out and you are close to the new low end model (if not the same speed).

Hope this helps you out.
 
The 667 comes with the combo drive (DVD/CD-RW) so i will have that, not sure what speed though... also i was going to get the gig of RAM, and as a second plan just get the 512 on one slot so i could upgrade to a gig later.

i hadn't thought about the scratch disk issue, but it would be cool in case i wanted to do DV editting on the road...

And i wanted to be able to back up my entire hard drive with room to spare just in case something untoward were to happen... theft, catastrophic failure of the machine due to contact with an immovable object, or the unthinkable... hard drive failure. i've already been burned by that one and lost a great deal of artwork and home-movie footage.

But alas it will all come down to how much money i want to be in debt for...

Ayaiii...
 
Off topic, but....

Just wondering, how does one become a Macrumors Member? Is that an accumulation of posts, or is there more to it?
 
thirty posts for macrumors member

one hundred for macrumors regular (formerly senior member)

five hundred for macrumors 6502

one thousand for macrumors 68512

the latter two are chip designations

and if you buy a macrumors mug, you become a macrumors demi-god, the higest of the high

i think these numbers are up to date:)
 
But you forgot the gods.

Arn and Blakespot, the moderators, are MacRumors Gods, higher than the highest.

I'm still pushing for 'Titan'
 
Originally posted by dukestreet
But you forgot the gods.

Arn and Blakespot, the moderators, are MacRumors Gods, higher than the highest.

I'm still pushing for 'Titan'
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and then there are the famous evil flamewarriors of the past three years like spikey, kela, anonymous coward/poster, monkeybusiness, bullsdrfr, john123, and joeyj (and others)...none of whom i have seen on these boards lately

they are the ones who like to use words like ****, ****, ****head, ****head, *******, mother****er, pc user, etc

but sometimes their points are the most valid stuff i hear on macrumors...and sometimes they flame for the sake of flaming

i know some of these people off the site thru email and they are a lot more coridial but don't tell anyone...he he:cool:
 
Yeah, i've lived here in Denver since January, but i've lived in several places on the Western Slope for a lot of my life. Ouray, Durango, Montrose....

So what do you do? i'm a student studying graphic design, but i love sculpture too, so i might have to double major.
 
wow.. that's cool.. I've lived here most of my life (kinda sad, isn't it) and a freshman at the School of Mines studying electrical eng.

I wonder if anyone else here is from Colorado..
 
denver...i thought you guys had the lame sports teams...except for the nuggets and rockies

then you won the stanley cup!

and then old john elway helped the broncos win back to back superbowls!

so even me, a die hard 49ers fan, has to salute your new found greatness in sports:D
 
oh jeez

Here it goes again. Called Apple becuase there are wrinkles in the screen substrate. ARGH!!! A box will be arriving to take it away tomorrow :( which means I will be back on the peecee tomorrow night, and Thursday too. I just hope that I have it back for Friday (via Apple's current same day turnaround time). At least that way I will have it back before the weekend and won't suffer too much.

The chances of getting a new system from Apple is slim to nil (asked the tech on the phone about it, doesn't happen from them :( ).

I would be happy if it just came back 100% and didn't have to go out yet again. This will be the third time it goes to Apple... At least with the AppleCare protection it isn't costing me a dime. The Airborne Express shipping alone is probably adding up to what I paid for the protection plan.
 
Re: oh jeez

Originally posted by AlphaTech
Here it goes again. Called Apple becuase there are wrinkles in the screen substrate. ARGH!!!
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Oh my God! How is it possible that you've been having so many problems with this machine? I feel for you. :(

Good luck!
 
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