[Hen163]

hiya, I bought a G4 12'' ibook about a week ago, and I just realised that the space bar of the keyboard is a little up on the right so the space bar appears not 100% parallel(lower on the left and upper on the right).

I wonder if this is common. I removed the keyboard once earlier in order to add ram. I cant remember if the space bar was already like that when it's new or the problem was caused when I added ram.

Also, I found one dead pixel on upper left of the screen, but it's not very visible. I wonder if I need to send it to Apple for repair.

[PianoMan]

hi

I have both of the two problems you explianed. the weird thing about the dead pixel is that it's a little blue one in the middle of my screen on the left hand size. Sometimes though this disappears and is replaced with a red pixel in the middle, but top of the screen. They never appear together, anyone have any idea what is going on?

Also aswell as these two problems I also have an unflush battery.

None of these problems really bother me at all, the only thing that does is the unflush battery, but it hasn't caused a problem and I've learned to live with it.

[SupahCoolX]

Dead pixels are very common with LCD (flat panel) screens. They're inevitable. An iBook's screen, for example, has 786,432 pixels (1024x768). If screen manufacturers wanted to get 100% perfect screens every time, the cost would be outrageous.
Apple, like most other companies, will offer warranty replacement if you have +/- 5 dead pixels in close proximity. This is reasonable.
Sometimes, lightly rubbing a dead or stuck pixel can bring it "back to life," but otherwise you'll just have to live with it.

[galarneau]

My spacebar is crooked too, also raised on the right. I've tried taking off the key, and reseating it, but it doesn't seem to make a difference. Annoying in a very subtle way, I agree.