Originally posted by diehldun
That's exactly what every Apple person I have talked to has told me. Also our new Powerbook is supposedly from this batch and hasn't exhibited any latch or screen problems. Also the lid is supposedly thicker on the new ones but I don't have an older one to compare to.
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When you say "our", do you mean yours, or all of the current Powerbook's purchased w/in a week? because all i can say is that my lid is pretty thin and was a slight (almost none) latch issue.
i know i sound really paranoid about getting the "latest" product, but thats just the way i am...
I mean our in my wife's and mine. Though it's primarily hers so I'm against saying my powerbook.
I don't know if the lid is thicker on mine but it feels fairly stout. Yes it can be twisted or flexed but not nearly as much as the old TiBooks and a lot of the PC laptops I've played with. Also when the lid is closed the gap between the lid and the computer are equal on both sides. The latch works perfectly and unlike some people have said I don't need to use the edge of my finger or my finger nail. The latch button sticks out far enough I can just push it normally.
I do have a problem update on our powerbook though. I don't have the startup issue that many people are describing where it fails to boot up. Ours just won't respond to the power button at all. It's like the power button is disconnected completely. We took it to our local authorized Apple retailer on Monday they're going to send it in to Apple for repair. My wife had some critical school documents she needed for finals and I didn't want to go to all the work of recopying prefs and files over to the Powerbook so they were nice enough to remove the hard drive and clone the drive over to a spare drive I brought in to them.
