17in G4 PowerBook vertical lines defect

Hi All,

I’m one of the unfortunate hundreds (thousands?) of owners of a 17inch G4 1.67Ghz PowerBook with a defective display. Beginning 12-24 months after purchase, our screens show an ever increasing number of one-pixel-wide vertical lines in several colours. Apple Discussions forum administrators have been using censorship and censuring since Nov 06 to try to stamp out public discussion of this defect, Apple Inc have failed to acknowledge the problem, and AppleCare centres claim this problem is unheard of – and direct callers to an Apple Store for an expensive and prolonged out-of-warranty repair. Meanwhile Dell have a three year free repair program in place for similarly afflicted 17inch displays on their PC notebooks.

In reaction to Apple’s censorship, censuring and silence regarding this obvious manufacturing defect, an end-user defect database initiative has proven that the defective PowerBooks were actually manufactured in the W8 Shanghai factory around Mar-Apr 05:
17inch “Bridget Riley” Powerbooks
http://crosspond.com/apple.php

For more info and five ACTION pages, please see:
Free Repair Campaign for Apple 17inch PowerBooks mini Wiki
http://simurl.com/pb17wiki

Warm regards,

dalinian

“I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.”
Kathy Acker

Body [quote="dalinian"]Hi All, I’m one of the unfortunate hundreds (thousands?) of owners of a 17inch G4 1.67Ghz PowerBook with a defective display. Beginning 12-24 months after purchase, our screens show an ever increasing number of one-pixel-wide vertical lines in several colours. Apple Discussions forum administrators have been using censorship and censuring since Nov 06 to try to stamp out public discussion of this defect, Apple Inc have failed to acknowledge the problem, and AppleCare centres claim this problem is unheard of – and direct callers to an Apple Store for an expensive and prolonged out-of-warranty repair. Meanwhile Dell have a three year free repair program in place for similarly afflicted 17inch displays on their PC notebooks. In reaction to Apple’s censorship, censuring and silence regarding this obvious manufacturing defect, an end-user defect database initiative has proven that the defective PowerBooks were actually manufactured in the W8 Shanghai factory around Mar-Apr 05: 17inch “Bridget Riley” Powerbooks http://crosspond.com/apple.php For more info and five ACTION pages, please see: Free Repair Campaign for Apple 17inch PowerBooks mini Wiki http://simurl.com/pb17wiki Warm regards, dalinian “I think the best thing in cases of censorship or things like this is to get as much media as possible.” Kathy Acker[/quote]

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