From hell's heart I stab at thee, Apple; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.

http://www.coreyarnold.org/ibook/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/03/danish_consumer_complaints_board_claim_ibook_defect/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/20/apple_refunds_ibook_g4_in_denmark/

I paid $300+ (twice!) to repair this problem before I found out about the simple fix. I just had to do the fix tonight because I was getting the same problem for the third time in the 3 years and 3 months I've owned my iBook. A more suspicious person would suspect there was a design flaw with the iBook G4 that lead to logic board failures. But Apple says there is no design flaw, and in Apple I trust. They wouldn't lie to me, right? Right?

And of course this happens Friday evening, when I'm leaving for Netbackup training on Sunday. Whee! A week in Ft. Lauderdale... during summer. The real question is am I registered? We signed me up on Tuesday (our backups are in desperate need of work), but niether I nor my team lead who put the course charge on his corporate card recieved the confermation e-mail. As a bonus, this is just a (literal) stone's throw from where my class is being held:

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-921planecrash,0,2355228,print.story?coll=sofla_tab01_layout