Slowly falling out of love with Apple..

This is a two pronged "moan" really,
My 15" 1.5Ghz PB has suffered from white spots for ages, it doesn't fall under the Apple Recall serials, I was quoted £800 to fix it. This annoyed me, but as the white spots aren't getting any worse and I'm not a graphic designer, its 'OK'.
So, last night my PB refuses to turn on, 'oh uh' says I. When it does start up again, its 'missing' one of my RAM slots. Oh joy of joys when I read the forums and lo and behold, this is a known problem to Apple, but like the white spots, they are only fixing a select few.
I bought my PB in 2004, pretty much 2 years ago today, it almost bankrupted me, I couldn't afford Apple Care. I expected to get at least 5 years of good life out of it, not for it to start failing on me now. I have been praising my PB and Apple since the day I received my PB through the post, but now I am starting get a little annoyed by their apparent incompetence. Yeah, my PB looks lovely, it's travelled all over the country with me, it's worked pretty much every day and I have had, ooh 2 kernal panics in 2 years. But the build quality seems to be some what lacking, especially compared to the expense of buying the thing in the first place.
I'm going to buy a bl**dy PC notebook next time and stick OSX on it.
Powerbook G4 80Gb Mac OS X (10.4.5)

Hi cavasound and welcome to Apple Discussions.
Sorry about your slot. Might as well try switching your memory between slots if you want to prove in fact your slot is bad and not the RAM itself.
If it is the slot, think about buying a one-gig stick for your good socket.
Good luck and hang in there.
Joe

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