Well, not quite – my iBook lost it today. It won’t boot now. I believe its eligable for some Logic Board Warranty Program, but I have no proof of original purchase, I imported from the US a year and a half-ago, and it was built in late 2002… so I’ll try my luck with the Apple Support folks tomorrow. I can’t see this working, its already undergone (user) replaced Hard-Disk, TFT Screen, Motherboard, CD-Rom and now Combo Drive… I could put it all back together as it would have been. I think I’ll just get I just bought a new Powerbook.

Update: So I pulled apart my iBook (again) and layed things out – expecting to find a “Broken / Not Broken” toggle. I found no toggle, but did replace the Combo Drive. When I screwed everything back together and pressed the power switch, it just worked. Hmm, I’ve installed 10.2.8 (safe!) and its running better than ever, I’ve put a new hard-disk inside and its perfectly silent now. I’ve already eBay-ed up an old Powerbook G4, which I’m going to use until the switch over to MacIntels in January (?). Again, if you’re interested in a 14″, DVD-ROM, 900Mhz G3 iBook, 640MB RAM and 2 Batteries… e-mail me!

Nope, its gone again. Game Over.

Right now I’m running on the sweetest little 12″ Asus Laptop we had at work. This little fella so wants to have style and cutting-edge-technology in one, like an iBook, but the Asus fails on every level to really impress. I can HEAR the hard disk right now and Centrino does not mean no fan. Lies! Anyway, built in Bluetooth is very cool, card reader too… 1.5GHz and Windows Media Center 2005 is acceptable. Oh, I just noticed a dead pixel, ouch.

I think I’ll start listing little XP irritations… weigh them up against being able to play Half-Life 2 on a Laptop with 5 hours of battery… its really, really light… no, stupidly light – I like that. Anyway, I can’t hold out till Steve’s Macintels now. And OS X is my only friend in the cruel world of OSs. If you have a Powerbook for sale – let me know. If you’d like a G3 iBook 900 Mhz with no hard-disk but a DVD-Rom (I’ll even though in the old combo drive for kicks) give me a shout. I’m actually very upset about all of this. But hey I chanced it on a G3 for too long. Oh, and I treated my iBook like crap.