So it turns out my iBook may last a bit longer yet

Well, what an adventure. I'll have plenty to say about my trip to Ottawa this week. I'm here at the OpenConcept office, working away with my friends. Having a blast catching up with people I haven't seen in a while! For the first time I flew up here on the good grace of West Jet's $11 flight (a story for another day).

Today was the first day of working, and to kick things off... My iBook wouldn't boot. Actually it froze... then when I forced it to shut down, it wouldn't boot... then it would boot, and then partially. I needless to say was very worried that an entire week of hard productive work would be curbed by a disparaging computer. After managing a few temporary trial and error fixes, I managed to complete a day's work on my computer. However in around 8:00, while I was in the middle of typing an email no less, it happened again! Except this time I was far less worked up.

I sat there, and thought. I noted in my mind the flickering, the freezing, the blinking booping, and blanking. It occured to me to test if it was merely flickering the screen brightness, when it finally hit me.

Indeed, my iBook was suffering from the fabled faulty logic board! It complies with the list of symtoms, and it's serial falls within the eligible range. For those of you who are not up to speed with ancient Apple warranty procedures, this is known issue that is deemed the fault of Apple. They issued an indefinite recall, and they cover the costs of replacing of eligible faulty logic boards. Well, that wraps that up, right? Wrong. I still need to wait until Friday when I'm in Toronto and can hand it in for repairs, which is a full 3 work days away! Not to mention all the extra work I'm doing this week for the NDP events coming up.

That's kinda cool Ravi, but is it really blog worthy?

No.

However, I should mention that I got this iBook used for something like $350. I knew something would be wrong with it at the time, but I simply needed something for my job. As it turns out, the problem was with my Power Management Unit, in the ways that it would not fully utilize my battery power, and would not sleep when the lid closed. I accepted it after trying to fix it a couple times. The PMU is on the logic board, and is no simple fix.

But wait! If it's on the logic board, and the logic board is suffering from another (entirely separate) ailment, which is covered by a recall, does that mean you get to fix two birds with one stone... for free?! I can't imagine not. I seriously can't imagine them replacing the logic board entirely, and then sabotaging the PMU just to put me back where I am right now.