I took my 17″ powerbook into the 29th Street Apple store a couple months ago because the LCD was loose and images on the screen had a habit of jumping as I would move the LCD up and down — Oh, and it was also the last day of the computer’s Applecare policy.
When I received it back, the sales/genius said they had tightened the LCD and tightened the connections. The only problem was the screen was as jumpy as ever. I should have been a little more “forceful” in explaining to the sales/genius that the jumpiness had not been fixed before leaving the store.
The end result is that my 17″ Powerbook gets more entertaining every day:
The Apple iTartan
The powerbook now needs to express its inner tartan with annoying frequency and the time it takes me to convince it that we must work on non-tartany stuff together increases with every episode.
I have a dual G5 desktop. but that sits in my office and doesn’t work so well on the hammock. And I’ve given my 12″ powerbook to my mom. So that leaves me with the 17″ as the computer on which I’m most comfortable doing my work (I am writing this post on the 17″ right now, actually).
I’m afraid I’ll be joining the MacBook generation when this computer will no longer play nice.