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by JeremyHerrman 1007 days ago
Came here to also praise the 2400c. I finally restored mine to working condition just last week after finding a donor screen from a parts machine.

Excellent build quality thanks to IBM Japan who thankfully incorporated the inverted T arrow keys, a first for an Apple notebook, which still persists to today's MacBooks. The 2400c excellent build quality also doesn't suffer from poor hinges like the PowerBook 500/5300/1400c models.

The processor is on a daughterboard allowing the 2400c to be upgraded to a G3, and the modding scene out of Japan has brought a ton of interesting upgrades like translucent cases and keyboards.

The main problems the 2400c suffers from are leaky PRAM batteries and other issues causing the dreaded Green Light of Death (GLoD), where the machine won't boot without hardware replacements like a new processor card.
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jonpurdy 1007 days ago
+1 for the 2400c. Picked one up when I moved to SF in early 2020 and restored it (SSD + more RAM).

The one complaint is that the keyboard (both US and Japanese) is just a tad small for comfort. The Wallstreet/Pismo keyboards were much better and a favourite of mine.

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helf 1007 days ago
Do you have yours upgraded to the japanese g3 240mhz? (Or any g3?). Curious about how it performs.

Have you run BSD or anything on it or just classic macos?

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