Bruce wrote: Pray and tell, us what make this 190 and 5300 so bad or so good that apple don't want them exist? This is list, we need "inside infomation" kind. Hint! On other hand, I find 190 nice when it work but I find internal design assembly and cooling less than desired due to too many cost cutting. Broken mouse button, no screw mounting for memory expansion and tend to pop back out by the bowed RF shielding the PCMCIA. Only 2 screws total holding down whole display to the bottom. Plastic breaking all over iside including those mouse assembly and screw holes broken out (bottom 3 that holds keyboard in). Excessive use of wood type screws (w/ steep thread 1 rev per 2mm) intead of machine screws in metal sleeves or metal parts. What else? Listed of these faults, I fixed most of them except those 2 of 3 broken out screws holes. RANT: I knew apple policies with broken parts, they grind them up no matter what vintage or recent ones because they can afford to because we pay apple too much. I don't appreciate apple's attitudes on this because forces us to pay for new parts or new machine. No diferent than M$ telling us to buy new machines to get real version not upgrade junk that preevishly wants legal copy of previous OSes before proceeding. end rant. Wizard

PowerPC of some sort. Old slow 603 maybe? I don't think they used 601's in PowerBooks. I think this was the last 680x0 machine. LC040 probably. Wasn't there something about exploding batteries with the 5300? Apple has always been a bit piggish about their stuff. They'd better put a microphone in the next iBook! @#%!#$^!#$%^!!! But the new G4 cube is nice. Anyone want to try to glue a nice LCD monitor to the front and stick a G4 cube into an old 128k case? :-) -- /-----------------------------------------------\ | http://jrollins.tripod.com/ rexstout(a)uswest.net | | http://www.geocities.com/jrollins.geo/ | | List admin for orham and ham-mac at www.qth.net | | KD7BCY pdxham at www.egroups.com | \-----------------------------------------------/

First off, they are recalling the A/C power adapters, not the Powerbook's themselves. Secondly they are offering an exchange for the A/C adapter. The URL for info on the exchange can be found at: http://exchange.info.apple.com/exchange/ I see nothing wrong with the way it's being handled since the exchange adapter is being provided free of charge. Where's the info showing they are trying to weasel out of fixing the unit? Some of the recalled adapters have been in use for nearly 3 years and are being recalled because of reports of them becoming somewhat hot during use and the recall is volentary on Apple's part. It's nothing like the previous recalls from Dell due to flaming batteries or from Apple concerning problem with the Powerbook 5300 series. For the 5300 series Apple even placed them under a much longer warranty period due to the problems. I believe the total time was something like 7 years for the total warranty. It sounds like they're taking care of the problems to me. Jeff -- Collector of Classic Microcomputers and Video Game Systems: Home of the TRS-80 Model 2000 FAQ File http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757