Thanks for the replies guys. So I guess the general consensus is that it's uncertain whether or not the problem may occur, but just to be safe I think I'll follow your advice and will use the piece of foam that shipped with the computer, rather than spending $35 on an iSkin
Chealion said: the only thing that has accumulated on the screen has been fingerprints from people pointing at things.
doesn't that drive you crazy!? I get nervous when people start pointing at the screen, especially when they've just been eating a whole bag of doritos or something and they've got cheese and crap all over their fingers
By the way, Moonsocket, or any other iBook G4 owners, have you noticed any erratic behaviour with the trackpad? I started noticing that sometimes the trackpad would just go crazy and jump to a corner and become unusable, mostly after the machine has woken up from sleep, although it also tends to happen quite randomly as well.
At first I thought it was because I'd installed Sidetrack, so I removed that, but the behaviour was still occuring, so then I removed Windowshade as well, believing that it was the culprit, but it didn't make a difference. I can now almost consistently produce the erratic behaviour by pushing hard enough on the lower left side of the trackpad so that it registers as a click (as if I'd actually pressed the trackpad mouse button). While some of you may be asking why I would ever push that hard on the trackpad, first off, it really doesn't require that much pressure to do this, and second of all, this is just an example of how to consistently produce this erratic behaviour. Most of the time, this behaviour occurs for no apparent reason, no matter how hard or soft I press on the trackpad.
Anyways, I was about to reformat the hard drive and reinstall panther, thinking that maybe a fresh reinstall would do the trick, but then I came across the following thread on the Apple discussion forums:
Trackpad Weirdness, so it seems I'm not alone with this problem..
I just can't believe the amount of quality control issues that Apple products are suffering from these days.. We've got the PowerBook G4 15" "White Spots", the PowerBook G4 12" Rev A "warping" and getting extremely hot, the G5 power supply sound issue, and now it seems we've got flaky trackpads on the G4 iBooks (and I've also left out a lot of quality control problems that have plagued Apple in the past). If it was any other company, there would be no way they'd still have such a loyal fanbase after shipping products with so many problems. Do these hardware problems occur from larger PC manufacturers as well (such as IBM, Dell, HP, etc)?
Adam
[ December 02, 2003, 01:31 PM: Message edited by: Adam C ]