Display only works at certain angles

This is not covered under the iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program.

The $135 is a pretty good price. The cheapest place I've found online is $125, and you would have to pay shipping both ways to and from Fremont, California.

Also, you are fortunate that the Apple Store has recognized the problem as a pinched cable and is willing to fix it as such. The official Apple remedy for this problem is to replace the display (at a cost of hundreds of dollars). You are the first person I've seen who says Apple will replace the cable at such a reasonable cost.

Check out the 90 degrees and black out!!!! thread, and you will see what a common problem this is.

If it only started happening two days ago, how would Apple have been supposed to fix it when it was in for the other repairs? It is not such a "common" problem among iBooks. It is a common complaint here, but many iBooks have never had any problem at all (logic board or cable problem).

You are talking about a four-year-old computer, after all. Things do go wrong sometimes.

I have NEVER before seen Apple offering to fix one of these for as low as the price you've been quoted. The official fix has always been to install a new display at the cost of hundreds of dollars.

Instead of feeling ripped off, I'd advise you to grab the offer and get it fixed before they change their minds. Many folks would be thrilled at the chance to get theirs fixed at that price.

I try to keep this from happening to mine by never closing it unless I'm putting it in my bag to take it somewhere (since I've been reading about this problem for three years).

Rhonda. It IS common. Stop apologizing for Apple. You shouldn't have to worry about closing your laptop. I love my macs (I just got an Intel iMac - my wife has a G5 iMac), but this is a design flaw that Apple refuses to recognize.

I am NOT apologizing for Apple.

It is one of the more common problems seen here, but that does not make it a "common problem." The most common thing for iBooks is for there not to be any problem whatsoever.

For every user who posts here, there are a thousand (or more) iBook users happily iBooking away with not a care in the world (at least, regarding iBooks), and oblivious to others' problems with them.

Since I am aware of the potential problem, I choose not to close mine when I don't have to do so. My husband opens and closes his several times a day, and his seems to have had no ill effects (thus far, and it's a 500 MHz model we've had for over three years).

Apple does not recognize a "design flaw" unless it affects a significant enough number of models to warrant such action. The cable problem does not occur in enough of a percentage of iBooks to trigger such an action.

The price quoted is among the lowest numbers one can pay;
I sent my (currently oldest computer) iBookG3 dualUSB 12"
computer to wegenermedia and had the same service done
to mine ... I paid $134. plus US Priority Mail. [A CompUSA
store 100+ miles away quoted me alot more & they send all
work like that out of state.]

Mine is a May 2001 build-date, topped out to 576MB RAM
has original 9.4GB Toshiba HDD; CD-ROM. Added Airport
card, dual-boots 9.2.2 & 10.3.9. Until something else goes,
it is very stable and has original logic board, etc.

I'd heard (unsubstantiated) the newer iBookG4 designs
had been modified to help alleviate the cable wear issue.
Time will tell. -- I have a mid-2005 iBookG4 1.33 12', too.

iBookG4 1.33 12/iMacG4 1.25 17/iBookG3 500 12 dualUSB Mac OS X (10.4.5) & (2) 10.3.9; plus AirPort EBS w/ 56k modem + ext antenna

My iBook gave up the ghost after 3 years. Too many problems to name. 3 years for a laptop is about average, so I wasn't indignant. I bought the new model iBook with AppleCare this time. I will update again in another 3 years.