California said:OP: have some Apple techs tighten the screws on your iBook. I can't imagine why they wouldn't be tight but then again, I don't work in an Apple Labor camp in China. Perhaps someone had to use the loo and was threatened with the whip or something and just couldn't tighten down the screws enough. If it still squeaks -- complain. My chinese made iBook is of lesser quality than my Taiwanese made iBook, I can tell you. (LCD not put together perfect, etc.).
Oh, how do you know where your machine was manufactured? Go to coconut identity card and download it. Will tell you month and year and week and country of manufacture. Also coconut battery will tell you how much oohms you got on your battery. Nice apps.
Thank you California (hey, I'm from LA, a few blocks from the Grove Apple store
Yeah, I'll try your suggestions. Incidentally, it said on the box that it was manufactured in China... I assume that means mainland China, so that would explain the funky build quality
I love the little lappy, I'd just hope not to have to deal with the little stuff, which to me indicates poor QC... that in itself is worrisome more than the specific problems, as it makes you wonder about the quality of work on the more critical components you can't even see
And yes, I've installed memory and optical drives in PCs (including memory in my Dull Inspiron laptop), so I'm sure I could manage to do it in the iBook, but like I said, I figure that as long as I'm there having them tighten up the keyboard and chassis, why not... involves taking off the keyboard in any case.
Aaah, all this trouble, and then these absolutely perfect Mactels come out in January, totally blowing away the current iBook and have fewer problems to boot (I figure they'd want to be on their best behaviour with the first changeover to Intel, so everyone will pull out all the stops... both Apple and Intel). Still, I went into this with my eyes wide open, so I have no regrets
Happy Holidays to you and Happy New Year!