There is currently a petition on PetitionOnline.com calling for Apple to extend the iBook Logic Board Repair Extension Program to the first generation iBook G4s (800 MHz 12”, 933 MHz 14"). The petition states that the original iBook G4 suffers from the same scrambled video issue that afflicts many iBook G3s.

From the petition:

It is our wish that Apple Computer acknowledges that iBook G4s produced between October 2003 and April 2004 (12” 800Mhz, 14” 933 Mhz, 14” 1Ghz) commonly have a manufacturing or design fault causing the graphics card to fail and requiring the logic board to be replaced. We ask Apple to extend it’s logic board repair program for iBook G3s to cover these models.

Full disclosure: The writer owns an iBook G4 1.2 GHz and has owned a 900 MHz iBook G3 that had four fried logic boards. The writer’s iBook ownership in no way influenced the writing of this article.

Submitted by Thomas Davie