In 2003, when I bought a G3 iBook laptop computer from Apple. It wasn't the fastest or best equipped machine, but it served me well during my time at university. And it looked nice. And even better, there were no problems with viruses and those pesky Trojans. (Aren't they a brand of condom?!).
All was well until around 2 years later, when the machine would suddenly and inexplicably crash - or freeze with funny lines on the screen.
The "Genius" at my local Apple Store looked at the thing for 5 minutes and said "Yeah, that's probably your logic board" and explained that it was not really economical to repair. He also suggested that I might like to invest in a much newer & sexier machine, the Intel-powered MacBook. He said upgrading to one of those was a "no-brainer". These MacBooks had been selling like hot cakes but decided I would hold off for a while, and investigated how to repair my iBook at home. I was still an empoverished student and shelling out for a new MacBook was a bit scary.
Fascinating what people can figure out isn't it? I found a plethora of people in a similar situation on the Interweb, whose iBooks' logic boards had failed. Take a look at this page for more tales of iBook woe. Some of them had come across ways of resurrecting their iBooks using candles, bits of metal and various other household items.
Could this really work???
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