>sidney ho!--outstanding initiative on your part, negotiating with the >upgrade engineers like that. my vast admiration and excitement at your >work. > >have you forwarded to them the blue comet/black comet studies you posted >here? esp regarding the 'goolsbee'd' improvements to the heat sink, and >the results as measured?
My goodness, I'm becoming a verb! =) To be honest the idea came from Japan, and was requested work by RLF along with an HD upgrade. I'd prefer we use a more generic term like 'custom copper heat sink' or something other than my name. I am just a good observer and willing tinkerer, with no special abilities which warrant becoming a verb. >maybe they could make the upgrade a whole package, selling it with the >specifications that the card not be installed until chuck goolsbee's >heat sink maximizer steps be performed upon any machine it is going to >be used in. The issue here that I see is that I am not in any way geared up to do these mods in any industrial-scale operation. I am just a guy with a workbench, and a high level of comfort with the assembly of this particular powerbook. The Interware CPU upgrade has different tolerances (it has a significantly lower profile) than the Apple original 603 CPU (which snuggled right up to the built-in heatsink, and would not even allow such a mod to work. I haven't even laid my hands on a Newer 240 Mhz upgrade, or an Apple original 240 Mhz (mighty cat) CPU. I saw the Newer upgrade under glass at a MacWorld Expo once, but that is all. >make it a requirement of warrantee, in big loud obvious >warnings on the package. > >maybe chuck could 'goolsbee' them up some prototypes to run their >development tests on, with their 600MGz prototypes. > >see what they say to that proposal. Again, I would suspect that any company with the engineering talent to produce a CPU upgrade for our beloved 2400c would also have the engineering talent to reproduce, and most likely *improve* on the modification I made to RFL's 2400c. All this supposes that they can match the scale of the Interware upgrade. In many ways they might be better off designing it to match the size and width of the Apple original and make direct contact with the built-in heat sink, obviating the requirement of a Interware style thermal gap filler. Lastly, I sweet-talked my way into procuring some free samples of some pretty expensive thermal gap filler material. I only have enough to do maybe a dozen of these mods without having to actually buy some more. --chuck 'not a verb' goolsbee ======================================================================= "It is so easy to miss pretty trivial solutions to problems deemed complicated. The goal of a scientist is to find an interesting problem, and live off it for a while. The goal of an engineer is to evade interesting problems :)" -- Vadim Antonov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on NANOG ---------- Duo/2400 List, The friendliest place on the Net! A listserv for users and fans of Mac subportables. FAQ at <http://www.themacintoshguy.com/lists/DuoListFAQ.shtml> Be sure to visit Mac2400! <http://www.sineware.com/mac2400> To unsubscribe, E-mail to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Need help from a real person? Try. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ---------- Dr. Bott | 10/100 Ethernet for your 2400 is finally here! MPC-100 | <http://www.drbott.com/prod/mpc100.html> RoadTools $30 PodiumPad available at Apple retail stores, $20 Traveler CoolPad at Staples. Both in white for iBooks at <http://roadtools.com> Midwest Mac Parts ][ <http://www.midwestmac.com> After-market parts for Macs. ][ 888-356-1104 ][ MacResQ Specials: LaCie SCSI CDR From $99! PowerBook 3400/200 Only $879! Norton AntiVirus 6 Only $19! We Stock PARTS! <http://www.macresq.com>
