All of the Apple laptops I've purchased have had one problem or another. My Pismo Powerbook G3 shuts off if it's jostled too much. My iBook G3 caught on fire when the power cable running through the hinge shorted out. My Powerbook G4 has this weird graphical glitch. It's hard to blame Apple though, all three of these computers served me well, took my tourture and are all still in use with 10.4 (the iBook was in use up till a few months ago). Except my MacBook Pro which is broken again.

I just had to have the first Mac with a Intel chip in it. Three months after buying it had to be sent back into Apple where they replaced the motherboard, fan assembly and battery. A year later it's out of warrantee and I'm having battery problems again.

It started when the battery would be down to about 50% charged, and the computer would shut down. Slowly that number would get higher. Today it will shutdown when the battery is charged 99%. I took it to a Apple store and they thought it was a internal wiring problem. I wasn't convinced after all reported battery problems Apple has had. I bought a new battery but the computer reacts the same way. So it's not the battery.

It's probably a motherboard. It's out of warrantee so Apple won't repair it for free, in fact they tell me it will be quite expensive. Not to mention that I've already had to replace a hard drive that died. The cheapest non Apple repair I can find is $695. I think I'd rather hold onto the money so I can buy a iphone.