I've Had it with my powerbook

Hi, I have a 10/2004 Powerbook 1.5 ghz $2400 model and I am on my last straw becasue last year, about a month after i got the sleep light went crazy and started blinking uncontrollably, which i had my logic board replaced, then the light wouldnt work at all and they replaced the logic booard again wiht no success, then becasue they installed a faulty board the display went crazy, had it rplaced again no my sleep light doesnt work and i think there is another problem becasue i cant boot to mac oos x and when i try to boot from the cd it wont work then i tried to safe boot only taking me to the terminal thingy and i tried fsck with no luck but then it says that a sensor is failin and needs to shut down now i got my files off and i am going to take it in but is there anythin i should do? I want Apple to give me a new computer becasue it has had way to many problems and I needed it for one of my exams tommorrow which puts me in a really bad rut

will I have another f**** prblem on my hands
because that was the only option they gave me
Yes!
There are some unsubstantiated reports that there are some lineless screens out there. But, the audio issue is on every hi-res 15" and 17".
So far Apple has been playing the denial game with both of these issues even though there are hundreds of posts all over the place about them.
OTHO, maybe you'll get lucky!!

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Thank you very much. "...under the covers...". I think you meant "under the hood", as in a car. I suppose "under the covers" would be man/woman interfacing, which I am familiar with!
Actually, I'm back in the US now for a few months. I looked at the OWC web site, but only cusorily so far. I'll contact them; they appear knowledgeable about Apple computers.
As to what you wrote about Western Digital's cases, I certainly wouldn't want a poor case. In China I had over time gotten 3 different external drive cases, 3 different Chinese brands, and separately bought Hitachi brand disk drives that 'simply' plugged into the cases. The drives are roughly 80GB 120GB and 320GB. The two larger ones are in cases that have Firewire plugs/jacks, which are bootable with my computer.
So my understanding, as you wrote, has been that my Powerbook will boot from an external hard drive, provided it connects via Firewire, and the disk drive itself is 'normally' formatted with however my computer's own disk drive is formatted, (HFS OS extended (journaled) or some such??). So I was left wondering why Western Digital would indicate that even though their such-and-so external hard drive case/drive was Firewire capable, that they would then say it would not be bootable with my Apple PPC computer......
Well, anyway, since you indicated Western Digital's case quality is suspect, then I'll try OWC and disregard Western Digital.
Naturally, OWC should be able to address this, but your thoughts are also welcome. You mentioned the OWC cases are good with Apples. Would the disk drives OWC supplied with the cases also be of relatively dependable quality?? From my so far only cursory look at their web site they appear to have various options, including case only options where I could insert my own or their own drives. These sorts of options seem preferable, also along with quality components.
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I would be with them and they would nonchalantly open it completely up showing me all its tightly arranged 'innards' while at least giving it a good internal dust/dirt clean job for cheap lunch and a beer (& so much dirt/dust/lint there was!)...these are the same folks who build the things of course...fast moving hands with tiny screws flying everywhere, but everything 100% all back in place when finished.
My Chinese friends also said that nowadays Apples are not as well built as when my Powerbook was built, that nowadays an Apple's life expectancy was considerably lower, so I fear that when I get a new computer that, though it will be more up-to-date and powerful, etc., it most probably won't last near as long as my Powerbook has. They also said that in an older computer the fan was often the first component to go bad, and if a new one couldn't be easily found, as they said was my case, then you're just left with having to get an entirely new computer. Part of why I dislike electronic computer gadgets generally is that they are obsolete so quickly.
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