Wow.

Maybe some of that was done by the original owner and thus the reason for sending the computer in for repair?

I sure hope no certified tech ever did that.

Those people who get their knickers in a knot when they proclaim "I'm an Apple Certified Tech" tend to bug me. My response is essentially "Well, you're a sucker. I didn't pay a cent, and I can do everything you can do and more." Half the time, those people are hiding their ineptitude behind piece of paper...

Peace,
Drew

geez, that's bad. I completly disassembled and reassembled my 500mhz icebook with no damage (though a small crack has developed on the LCD bezel, but I think that's just the aging of the plastic).

maybe I should be certified.

back at NSJ 2005, when we were touring D.C., our assistant scoutmasters had this running joke, our tour guide got pissed when one of the assistant scoutmasters started leading the tour, saying "you can't do that", and when they asked why, he said "because i'm certified", and when asked why, he responded "because I took the test". that had us ROTFL whenever the assistant scoutmasters would repeat it.

I plan to become certified, but only because it makes me look legit, and because it will probibly attract more business, but I don't plan on waving it in everyones faces.

-digital

One would only hope that no Apple certified tech did that. but the documents you have can almost say otherwise.

my god man, that laptop look like it was ran over by a truck on how those cases are so broken up. heh, probably was well used and mistreated. or the owner could not keep ahold of it.

BTW great job on the case repairs. i guess you can classify that as plastic surgery. you got a good pic collection going there, great pic's, great pic's man.

also nice Mac collection. got lost looking at your pic's wile looking at the case damage

haha thanks

i actually ended up having to re-repair the LCD hinge. it cracked in a horrible spot, the weakest point of the frame is RIGHT next to one of the hinge stress points and it snapped soon after the initial repair.

what i ended up doing was gluing the frame to the front bezel and using more fiberglass mesh and epoxy to spread out the stress point. it is holding up nicely, but since it was also bent so severely, the LCD lid won't close all the way. it has about a 1" gap in the front.

i have plans for it though, being a G3 it runs cool as ice so it would be perfect for an in-car entertainment system. but thats for another day.

ahhh, sweet it sounds like it will make for a great project. which will be more original that putting a mini in a car.

yea once a case is in that bad of shape its very hard ( sometimes) to get it anywhere near back to stock alignment.

you would think that when the system (case) was being designed that Apple would have put more thought into the case design to help releave much of the stress in that spot. cause a hinge does put a bit of stress on the case cause of its function.

i have a old IBM thinkpad 380ed, it was thrown across the room by the owner before me ( he had 10 of them) none had a OS installed and he got mad at them (cause none would boot) and threw one into the wall. i worked on all but this one cause its screen was shattered.

I got them all working ( he was suppose to give me a working one) but he gave me the broken one instead. i took the screen off of it ( boy was it a PITA) the metal inner frame is bent to hell and back. and allot of the plastic outer casing is cracked. i worked on getting things more aligned but there is not much i could do to get the case back to normal.

but it still works 100% even with it being thrown in to the wall and minus the screen ( i am glad it has a VGA out on the back ) and still being bent up a bit. so now its a mix between a desktop and a laptop ( reminds me of a C64 on how its used now).

i am thinking on making a bracket under the desk to hide it in cause it does have a PS/2 port, a com port, a printer port and a VGA out, so i can hook a external KB and mouse to it. so all that will be seen is a monitor and KB and a mouse and the computer wont be seen. for like something a little kid can use.

i would love to see the project with it if and when you do, do it

yeah i'll take pics, but it probably won't happen until christmas break. i've got too many things i need my car for to risk busting it open now, lol.

and i doubt very much that the iBook was designed by Apple internally. they might have designed the exterior, but compared to laptops which were obviously designed in-house (the TiBook is a good example), the ibook is FAR too complex and inelegant inside to be a product of Apple's engineering team. maybe their "C" team, but certainly not the same team which was put to designing the professional laptops. i smelled outsourcing the instant i opened it up.

humm , you have a great point on that, i didn't think of it.

yea cause when you look at it allot of the laptops from apple didnt have this problem. i wonder who made the case design, cause whoever did they needs to be shot or hung for the bad case design.