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Bummer. Yeah, this is probably the one time I'll always buy an extended warranty.

Sorry I can't give you a price idea. It really could be cheap, or like you said, it might be cheaper to wait and get a new one.

is it my imagination or did i hear from someone or another that if i take it into the apple store for repair (assuming it isn't something really basic) that there is a flat fee (or a "this'll cost at least THIS much" fee) of something like $250-$300?

i could very well be making this up, but i thought i had heard that somewhere or another.

i guess i should call them instead of posting here about it.

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Originally posted by yellow
sadmacgirl:
Invest in more RAM. I'm not 100% sure which model you have, but you should be able to get over 500mb of RAM in there. RAM is cheap. Of course, I've never (seen or) opened a clamshell iBook, so I don't know how complicated it is to put RAM in it. The first iBooks we purchased were in late 2001.

Free up as much disk space as you can. UNIX operating systems require disk space as swap (think virtual memory), and if there's not much there and you don't have a lot of memory, then things are going to slow down.

It might be time to invest in a third party disk utility. DiskWarrior3 (which I've not used but seems to be the favorite on here), or Drive X (which I have used and think sucks). An alternative is to backup, reformat (zeroing all sectors), and reinstall.. which I'm not entirely sure will gain you much.

Finally, you might want to consider the very expensive alternative of investing in a new Mac, but I'd wait 6 months for the G5 line.

The ram is under the keyboard just like almost all of apple laptops (of the last 3 years at least). Diskwarrior is an awesome product, I have not been able to get my hands on DW3 (cos my company is a bunch of penny pushing cheap skates) but I would assume its great. Installing ram in a clamshell - easy, installing anything else - pain in the arse.

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Originally posted by Pappy Wappy
thanks for the insight.

the startup chime was the most frightening part to me as well.

i'll be making a visit to an apple store in chicago in a few weeks (the day before the keynote at WWDC) so i'll see what they have to say.

does anyone have any idea what i should expect to pay to deal with getting it fixed? if it isn't going to be an arm and a leg i'm fine with fixing it but the only reason i haven't replaced it is that a new 15in powerbook hasn't come out yet. the ibook is going to get passed on to my lady-friend, but at this point i almost think it's worth just getting her a new ibook.

opinions are welcome.

thanks for the help.

Its hard to say, it could be as simple as resetting the firmware on your ibook, or it could be as nasty as a bad MLB. Now, considering you can purchase a 700Mhz ibook on ebay for abouts 800ish, I would look into replacing it if any major part is needing repalced. Apple does have a tier system, the minimum charge is like 350 or something of the sort. I work for an AASP, so I would recomend having a store do inhouse repairs on it, apple will charge you more.