IMac G4 display dead

Just adding to a long line of postings here and elsewhere on the net. My iMac G4 screen went dead a week ago, Apple says its the logic board and would cost $650 to repair, which they don't recommend I spend on a 3 year old iMac. With new iMacs at $1,289 I agree that's not a good investment but I should not have this problem. With the large number of failures of the display Apple should do something. I did not have an extended warranty but even if I had it would have ran out about a month ago. I have been buying Macs for over 20 years, my first was the 512K model and until the G4 these products never let me down. It seems however that the Macs are going the way of the iPods when it comes to quality and now that the processors are intel I'm not sure I should continue to buy Macs. For now I purchased an external 19" flat panel display (~$450 less than the repair costs) so I can try to get a year or two more out of my G4. Sure miss the flexibility of movement of the internal display, what a shame.
Does anyone think that Apple will do something about this?

I'm not certain which external (third-party) or aftermarket displays would be
best for your purposes; but keep in mind the highest resolution supported
by your computer's video card is what that external can run at; no more
than that in the native support in OSX. There are a few applications that
may help run a higher resolution (non-native) but if you have hardware
issues, it is best to try to sort out the service situation to see what kind
of followup testing they can do regarding this repair that didn't fix it right.
You have a limited time to get any adjustments or re-repairs on a machine
no longer under a full warranty; and if their "repair" didn't fix it, seems to me
there should be a higher authority or another procedure you could try to get
some further action on this remaining issue; instead of letting them throw
parts at it. There well may be a video card/logic board problem, or a lesser
evil involved in fixing this. Did they replace the wire harness in the chrome
arm, or test it for bad wires? That could also be at fault.
Sorry you've had some unhappy experiences with this issue; and
hopefully something can be done that won't cost alot (more.)
Best of luck in this matter!
[These forums are very sluggish today...]

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