Category: iBook

  • More on the old iBook G4

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    I never did come up with a cause for the failure of my wife’s iBook. We bought a new aluminum MacBook. Very, very, very nice. (Yes: Three Verys!) We had all the data from the old machine backed up (both to the server in the house and to Amazon’s S3 via Jungledisk), but in the…

  • iBook G4 “Black Screen & Loud Fan” issue

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    It’s a holiday from work today, but unfortunately I’m spending the day working on my wife’s iBook. It has suddenly developed a serious problem. The symptom is apparently a very common one: When the power is turned on the screen stays black and the fan spins at full speed. We do have all the files…