For those who are marginalizing the iBook issue, I'm glad that you are happy with your apple equipment, and haven't had to experience the problem. I agree, that generally class action suits are pretty lame, and don't accomplish much. I also think that as an iPod owner, the iPod suit is lame, you don't sue your phone company cause you were the a battery on your cell phone out quick. As well, I felt the class action suits for older G3 owners who didn't have full OS X support was pretty lame too. I qualified for both, but haven't signed up for either because it was simply lame.
Anyhoo, as for the iBook though.... this is real. And yah, you don't hear a lot of people mouthing off on the forum, but do a search on the web, and you'll find a ton of people have had the problem. I own two ibooks. One of which is a desk model, it really never moves. To say I bring the probelm on myself, well would be naive. As I pamper that computer like crazy because it is a laptop. Anyhoo, shortly after the warrantee period on both units, the screen began to show problems like those described above. Pretty lame really. I wasn't mad, didn't vent, just wrote it down to really bad luck and moved on, got a new laptop etc etc. However, after venturing out to learn if there was some loose wire or something I could fix, I realized by doing searches just how many ibooks have failed. A crazy high number. All with the same description of problems. My nicer of the two, it even gives me a nice little electric shock about once a day just from touching the bottom of the case. That says to me that something surely isn't write.
Anyhoo the problem is very real, and wide spread, of course it doesn't effect everyone or Apple would have done something by now. But it effects enough people Apple should surely do something about it. When the eMacs had a large screen failure rate, Apple was replacing Motherboards and many many units. I would say from our Mac shop we had at least 1/3 of the units come back. Eventually they tagged the problem as cable on the motherboard, and replaced those as well. But never did offer a standard recall. Which to me seems odd. If you know there is an issue that will cause most machines to fail... why not let your customers know, and why not fix it.
With the iBook, I'm most amazed that still current models are having the problem. It's as if Apple still hasn't even recognized that it is an issue, and from what I gather, it's an easy one to fix, better cables, a bigger whole, and away you go.
Anyhoo, even though I dislike class action suits, I'm looking to sign this one. As it just doesn't seem right to let it slip. As well, one of the laptops was sent in when it had some problems. Apple only fixed one of the two issues. Leaving the screen issue unresolved, only to later go out completely. Anyhoo, sadly to say, as someone who has qualified for any and all Apple Class action suites as of late. And as someone who has basically laughed at the others. I think this once, the suite might have some merit. And I am thinkgin hard about siging on.
Guess we'll have to wait and see what happens.
