Titanium PowerBook G4
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Release Date: January 2001 Base Price: USD$3499 |
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Titanium PowerBook G4
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Defects
- Plagued by many significant defects relating to both form and function of the computer
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Peeling & Chipping Paint
- A huge number of Titanium PowerBook users reported the paint chipping, flaking, and bubbling off of their machine. "Repaired" machines would often suffer the exact same paint bubbling and chipping weeks after the repair. The culprit? Heat. Like many Apple laptops, the paint seemed to weaken from excessive heat generation, and poor quality assurance on Apple's part to catch the problem, or learn from their mistakes (most models of the Titanium PowerBook had this problem until the 800mhz revision, when Apple reportedly came up with a better cooling solution, years later).
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Weak / Cracking Hinges
- the TiBook suffers from weak hinge joints, that over a relatively short amount of usage will crack and render the machine's LCD useless. The Wallstreet G3 PowerBook also had a similiar problem.
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Denting Case
- Not limited to the TiBook line, the casing on many of Apple's metal based computers dent and ding unreasonably easy
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Excessive Heat
- Excessive heat generated by many revisions of the laptop led to logic board failures, paint cracking, and general instability of the units
- Heat was documented to be hot enough to 'bake' on a fingerprint of an Apple employee when the defective PowerBook was taken to an Apple Store to address the obvious problems
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Combo drive overheat problem
When reading a DVD the drive becomes too hot and stop working properly. For example I can play a DVD movie for about 20 minutes and then it stops. Same thing when reading data. When I upgrade an OS, I have to put the Powerbook outside to be able to complete it. Hopefully new system releases are mostly at fall.