The last of the iBooks G4

I have purchased a iBook G4 ten days ago...its due for delivery at the weekend.
Apple have the G5 on sale as of today!!
Please tell me my iBook G4 is still an atractive purchase!
Tc

I believe you can still cancel your order and order a MacBook.
I ordered an iBook G4 1.42 MHz model in December. Am I happy with it? Yes. I can surf the Net, do basic word processing, basic photo and video editing at speeds which seem reasonably fast to me, since the last Mac I owned was a PowerBook G4 12 inch, 867 MHz model. My daughter now has inherited it. My only major complaint is the keyboard.
If I had the chance to exchange for a comparably priced MacBook, would I do it, even though I'm happy with my iBook? You betcha! Either way, though, I see it as a no-loss situation. It's a choice between good and better.
Ted

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SOL?
Her files probably won't fit on a CD; unless she has less then 700Mb.
1."Is this Apple's first virus?"
Negative
2. "Is this the work of a disgruntled Apple employee working in the updates department?"
No, I don't think so. Apple tries these out to try and avoid problems with their updates. Things happen that are not expected. They wouldn't put anything out unless they thought it was ready.
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and some user tales of homebrewed fixes, in the results from a Google search
of these terms: *ibook G4 video problem shim.* (GPU: graphic processor unit.)
Another idea is to look into the *Cory Arnold Effect*. One of his posts in Discussions
(2006) appears here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=3249364
+If you or someone else has already tried to re-flow solder on the suspected weak+
+areas of a logic board, & there are continued issues, then the board may be shot.+
While some location searches may find different results, and that may be a
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There are several references and I have read of them, over the past four years.
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My apologies for the lack of photos, here is my post again with photos.
I have hidden unwanted books from the purchased area of the iBooks store, but they're are still appearing on the front page of iOS as cloud downloads, is there a way to remove these from iBooks without using the hide iCloud books button?
Let me explain a little more. I had downloaded a lot of free books in the past as a trial when iBooks was first released and since then I have decided I no longer want them, because of this I hid them from the purchased section of the iBooks store. The 5 books left are ones I decided to keep as seen in the following picture.
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The iOS app is working differently for me. Here is a picture of the purchased tab on the iBooks store in iOS Ibooks. Again notice that pictures of Lilly is still yet to be downloaded. This is how I expected it to look.
If we visit the front page of iOS iBooks the view is very different from what I expected. Here we can see the 4 books I wanted to keep on my device and have downloaded. We can also see the 1 book I wanted to keep, but did not want to store locally on the device and left in iCloud (Pictures of Lilly). However we can also see all the books I had hidden from the purchased section of my iTunes account and which I believe should no-longer be visible, Dracula, frankenstein etc…
I am aware of the hide iCloud books button within the iOS app, but I did not need to use this to hide the books I had removed from the my purchased section of the iBooks store on the mac, why are they still appearing in iOS?
I’m still not sure if this is a software glitch or not. This article suggests to me that books can be hidden, but I had already completed these steps.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201322
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I once had several of my photos taken off the internet and then used in a commercial catalog without my permission. I was outraged, the catalog company was naive, and in the end I received $100 compensation and an apology. - Fabini

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