09-13-2007, 06:35 PM
[quote davester]I'm one of those with an iffy power plug, and I've noticed that often the lighted ring around the plug goes out or flickers, but it doesn't seem to affect the charging (as shown on the menu bar). Are you basing your concern on the light or the charging indicator?
I just picked up this machine last night and so far spent just a couple hours cleaning the PB itself and installing Tiger. I was moving the computer around while I was scrubbing it - I swear she kept it on the bottom shelf of her refrigerator or garbage disposal or maybe it was a dumpster dive find. Anyway, I could very well have moved the plug - what I noticed was the charging icon in the menu bar showed it as on battery power after I'd been charging it a while. The fact that the case is monkeyed up at the power plug and the seller (supposedly the brother of the owner) telling me how he always inserted it with the split uppermost makes me suspect a potential logic board issue. I'll see how it does after a couple days of use - I'm waiting for a replacement "Return" key cap before I start using it regularly.
I just picked up this machine last night and so far spent just a couple hours cleaning the PB itself and installing Tiger. I was moving the computer around while I was scrubbing it - I swear she kept it on the bottom shelf of her refrigerator or garbage disposal or maybe it was a dumpster dive find. Anyway, I could very well have moved the plug - what I noticed was the charging icon in the menu bar showed it as on battery power after I'd been charging it a while. The fact that the case is monkeyed up at the power plug and the seller (supposedly the brother of the owner) telling me how he always inserted it with the split uppermost makes me suspect a potential logic board issue. I'll see how it does after a couple days of use - I'm waiting for a replacement "Return" key cap before I start using it regularly.