Thinking about sending IBook back!

Well...I have been using 12" iBook for a week now, and I enjoy OSX. Right now I am concerned about the quality of iBooks...when I put little bit of preasure on the left side of the laptop (right under the left palm) and by the left speaker, I keep hearing sqeaking. Is it normal??? What about your iBooks?
Should I send it back for repair, or can I return it?

Thanks

 

The notebook is not a tank. Of course there is flex to some degree: the notebook is made out of plastic.

 

i get the same with mine. I'm not sure whether to return it or what. I can live with it i guess. but i'd rather have it fixed.

what i found out was:
the grey part and the white bottom part is not fully attached. and squeaking is due to the two of them rubbing against each other.

i see a lot of forums talkin about this and tons of people have complained.

i saw a solution but it didn't work for me. at the bottom of your ibook, there are 4 rubber feet. take the one that's bottom left of the laptop, u'll find a screw underneath the foot. try tightening that. I'm not sure whether it's my screw driver or it's just not possible for me to fix it through this way. but i heard it will imrpove.

if it really bothers you, try exchanging it and tell me what happens

 

THANKS!!!

I called Apple Tech support...they told me to go talk to people at Apple store. We'll see what happens.

Thank for info guys.

 

I don't know why they call the ibook a students notebook. You really can't do much with it other than typing documents.

 

What else are you talking about doing with it? It can do lots of things. If you are talking games, if you are a student, you shouldn't be spending your time gaming. It does music and video easily, to veiw lots more video that isn't supported by quicktime, just use the VLC player. And of course itunes for music. Photoshop is available for pic editing (and iphoto). easy Networking.What else is there for basic uses other then what i listed here and what most people use (the basic 3, web, photoshop, and word processing).

 

The graphic card is way outdated. You couldn't do the simple video editing that apple supports. The movies are choppy and the screen is still the same thing for the past 3 years.

 

I don't think the screen is bad, as nice as the enhanced screens are, i don't like the glare they have.

As for the graphics card, be happy with the fact that its a 12 in portable THAT HAS a DEDICATED graphics card. Not many 12 inchers have a dedicated gpu. So generally it is more powerful then most others.

 

I had the exact same problem with my Asus W3V when I'd apply pressure onto the notebook.

The part that was making the noise was the hdd cover at the back of the notebook, so I took some Teflon tape / Plumbing tape, and wrapped the "teeth" that stick out of the plate with it.

The noise stopped.

Helped me, might help you.

 

My ibook has the same squeak. I bought it for my fiancee and she doesn't have a problem with it so I don't either.

As far as the video card is concerned it's better than any integrated solution available for equivalent Windows notebooks. In fact try finding a Windows machine the size of the ibook that even has discrete graphics.

 

Well...1st of all, in the store I was told that squeaking
was because of the plastic parts, so they could not do anything to fix it. Another thing...I thought that video editing mostly depends on CPU not GPU.

 

Correct, non-linear editing is largely dependent on the CPU. OSX does off-load some graphics onto the GPU, but I'm not sure how that would affect video editing. If anything the iBook would be better at 3D than the 12" PB since the video card on the iBook is better.