Oh Sure, But What If I Might Save The World At The Same Time?

I’ve been having big problems keeping the little iBook connected to the wireless. Of course, so have hundreds of other owners of two or three year-old iBooks. What’s the connection? Batteries. They’re dying.

Batteries can’t hold a charge, can’t power the wireless card, can’t stay connected. In fact, the charge indicator shows 80% left right now, but this computer has quit with 75% (and two hours) showing, so who can really say?

My old battery is kaput, so why wouldn’t it fail to power the Airport card?

And why wouldn’t the boys and girls in the Apple support discussions think of that?

Why should I possibly think that I’m smarter than them? I don’t, so what’s the connection? Why did everybody’s Airport card fail all at once?

Your pal,

bob

UPDATE: I bought a battery today (originally wrote this last night, but the damn thing went down) and it doesn’t seem to have helped all that much. It’s up and down at random intervals. So much for being smart, eh?