PowerBook 2400c -- The Japanese Mac Made by IBM 

Why not both?

I personally like to cognitively conceive of something else.

@@NuclearTopSpot underrated comment right here

Think similarly

I usually fill the crevice around the insert with something like jb weld. As long as you leave passage for any cables, that usually prevents any future breakage.

Super glue and baking soda works also.

@@Tomppa8.2 that too. really just anything to reinforce the nut-sert from the outside, putting it back as-is is just asking for it to break again. Even if the glue holds, it'll be stronger than the plastic around it.

@@briangoldberg4439 Same here - I use whatever 2-part epoxy glue I've got to hand, like Araldite. It's not limited to very old laptops either, the last one I did was a Dell Vostro 15 5568, only 3 years old but just out of warranty. Seemingly part of a bad batch because I've seen loads of them fail the same way. The upper case/wrist-rest fails and the screen falls off if left unchecked. That said, I'd really like to try the superglue and baking soda method.

Gaming on anything eats battery faster.

@@xenobreak1160 Nah, just having the GPU in the system eats the battery faster.

@@thumbwarriordx It feels like *everything* eats the battery faster lol

That's why you use switchable graphics and disable the dedicated GPU when the power cable is disconnected. My gaming laptop from 2013 gets about 8 hours when I do that with a lightly used battery (the battery is shot now and due to be replaced)

@@irdmoose What laptop do you have? I use battery saver, reduce screen brightness, switch to the low-power GPU, etc. etc. but still struggle to get over 3 hours

Yeah I like that aesthetic too. I got my GameBoy Advance back in the day in the translucent Atomic Purple color and it was awesome.

That was more of a Aughts thing.

@@mopeybloke I'm sure it spilled into the early augts as trends tend to go. But the clear trend started in the 90s which included Zima, Crystal Pepsi and the Gameboy Play It Loud version.

@@SuperNicktendo Yes the see threw trend did indeed start in the 90's, as Apple released the first clear iMac computers in August of 98, and things started to copy that trend to say around 05/06 when it started to die out, so we can call that period a 2nd wave for clear plastic, and the clear trend in general.

I remember seeing the transparent case laptop in the movie Hackers and wanting one so bad. I was so jealous that he got it for free too, I wanted a laptop so bad back then but I was like 12 and laptops were super expensive haha.

Some of Apple's laptops used a very soft rubber and overtime they breakdown and all one is left with is a gooey residue. It was simply a poor material choice.

Alex Santos IBM ThinkPad Laptops also suffer the same problem overtime.

@@santospoland I think they are referring to the pitting on the cover, not the rubber bumpers.

Findecanor Nope, not a chance. If the plasticizers in PVC attacked ABS, then it would eat holes in all the devices that are made of ABS and contain permanently-installed PVC wires (which is nearly all). ABS is the most widely used plastic for electronics, and PVC is _by far_the most common wire insulation. If they were incompatible there would be widespread problems, but there aren’t. (Note that around 15 years ago, Apple began transitioning away from PVC, since it releases toxic fumes when incinerated.) What PVC does attack is polystyrene, which is why it eats into styrofoam.

@@tookitogo ABS is usually about two thirds polystyrene. So any solvent that affects polysterene will also affect ABS, with rare exceptional differences that are largely down to magnitude and timing, for example Limonene makes short work out of PS but takes much longer to penetrate many grades of ABS for some reason, but most solvents are close to equally effective. PVC is an extremely brittle and hard plastic, this is why it's used for gramophone records. It is also a plastic which is naturally difficult to ignite, which makes it a preferred material for insulation. To make it actually usable, it's mixed with a plastifier, a "non-volatile" solvent. Obviously if it wasn't inclined to move, it wouldn't possibly be a solvent, so it escapes from the surface and gets wicked out, because you have seen what happens with old PVC products, these compounds invariably turn out to be somewhat volatile over decades upon decades. The composition varies A LOT and is usually a trade secret, and what they affect is also down to storage conditions. Whether the air is stale or slightly moving can make all the difference between it evaporating or seeping into the adjacent plastic. So you can't just make sweeping statements. Another thing to keep in mind is that Styrofoam has an extremely large surface area for very little volume, so even very small penetration depth can cause the mechanical structure to critically weaken. You could place the clear front piece of a CD case, which is also made from pure polystyrene, under the same conditions, and find no obvious damage.

Yep, this was your machine alright! I bought both machines together (the other one was the “good” one) about 10 years ago. Other than an assortment of CD-ROMs and the wireless card, both included neoprene “wetsuit” carrying cases. I’ll have to do further testing with regards to the whole AC/battery power thing, though at least both machines boot and run just fine still. How did you end up with a second one?

@@ThisDoesNotCompute Ah, yes, I remember now, very cool! I bought the second one after I broke the first one. I can't remember, but I think I got a good deal for it off one of the Macintosh mailing lists of the time. I used the machine as a backup or portable when I was in college in the early '00s, I had a G4 as my main desktop. CodeWarrior was for my school assignments. The rest of the software was just things I used at the time. I had Debian Linux on both my G4 and this back then. I remember the G4 had a better openfirmware that allowed you to boot directly to Linux, rather than use BootX. I found your channel recently searching for GameBoy mods, and I enjoy it very much!

What actually happened to the lid?

no because no one cares about loonix

@@ps5hasnogames55 speak for yourself

@@MarkMann1 nah i think i speak for the vast majority of people when i say no one cares about loonux

@@ps5hasnogames55 nah, speak for yourself.

@@MarkMann1 cope more

Woah woah woah that excellent should be *excellent*

All laptops of this era were pretty similar, with the IBM Thinkpad being possibly the most serviceable.

2010+: Hold my beer.

Well, for laptops I have a couple of storage bins that I added dividers to - I made a video about it a while back. In general though I’ve had to become much more picky about what I collect as I’m simply out of space. I’ve also had to make some hard decisions about what to let go of in order to free up space for something new. I think it’s actually a good thing in the end because it forces me to pay attention to what I have instead of mindlessly hoarding it.

The 3400 will definitely be getting covered at some point!

@@ThisDoesNotCompute Hell yeah!

when your brain turns into sticky goo over time muhahahahahaha

Hell, even ten years ago the processor in an iMac was still socketed, you could replace the GPU (if you found one that fit), there was a standard 3.5" hard drive, and so on. Now their iMacs are just like their laptops, soldered-in everything :/

I have tons of Socket 7 motherboards and a couple Slot 1 boards and tons of PCI and ISA cards.

The Mac Pro would like to disagree. That thing is the most modular desktop in years.

The Newton, ImageWriter and QuickTake were unheard of, but the iPod and iBook were overnight successes. If beating the “old Apple good new Apple bad” dead horse makes you feel better then sure.

@referral madness Apple was basically both IBM and Microsoft at the same time. It almost spelled their death. It was their (arguably) anti-competitive ecosystem and the switch to x86 that saved them. I hear apple wants to go to ARM now... I wish them luck...

​@@rich1051414 How did switching to x86 save them? That was long after the iMac and a bit after the iPod+iTunes, I'd argue that those were the two things that saved Apple, not switching to x86 which hardly made much difference to the average end user...

@referral madness The fact that otherwise likely intelligent people still peddle the stupid notion that "Bill Gates saved Apple", some 23 years on now, just makes me shake my head. Sure, tell yourself that a company that was sitting on north of $2 billion (yes, that's a B) in cash was in imminent danger of bankruptcy. (Jobs told the 90-days-from-broke story because it cemented his legend.) Tell yourself that Microsoft didn't know about iMac's imminent release, and didn't want the finally-updated-as-part-of-that-deal MS Office for Mac sold to all those newly-minted Mac users. Ask yourself what Microsoft's $150M investment in Apple netted them, as they cashed it out between 2000-2003? (Had they kept hold of them to present-day, their $150M would be worth $22.4 Billion today, and well over 2x that a few years back at Apple's peak.) But you go on, parroting this nonsense narrative in comments sections. Whatever helps you sleep at night.

@@Dustie1984 Yes the first iPod launched in 2001 and Apple computers switched to Intel in 2006. But the 1st attempt to use intel begun in early 1990s, with 'Star Trek project', but it stopped and they moved to PowerPC instead.

The plastic was brittle even in 1997. I don't remember taking apart too many of these but the Powerbook 540 lineup never really went back together fully perfectly.

I'm playing with CodeWarrior Pro 6 at the moment, writing a small game. CodeWarrior is great but Macintosh Toolbox is not a great API haha. We have come a long way since then :)

QuickDraw... ew

In short: Yes, and it doesn’t even need the G3. But calling the experience painful would be an understatement.

@@ThisDoesNotCompute I had no idea that OS X would run on pre-G3 CPUs. If I can get my old PM 8500 fired up, I think I might have my next COVID-19 project!