My motherboard went out on me on my G3 iBook. The shop quoted me at $400 plus to fix. Is this true? Can I fix it myself or at least buy a motherboard and have them fix it. They are saying its $300+ for the board and $100 for the labor. Any ideas?
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Doesn't sound that far fetched. Apple logic boards are expensive and paying for professional labour is always expensive.
The components and labor do truly cost that much. I strongly suggest that you don't try to replace the logicboard yourself either unless you're extremely comfortable working with small electronics. Even I won't touch the internals of an iBook.
Ok what about all my itunes and some of the other stuff how do I go about getting that off and putting it on another computer?
Well, you'll either need a working computer or pull the harddrive and attach it to another machine. Of course you should have backups, replying on the disk not dying is a really bad plan.
I've taken iBooks apart to salvage their hard drives. I warned their users that they weren't going to have their iBook put back together.