> This makes me crazy! So Apple under Michael Spindler is pushing so hard to get > product out the door because Apple was literally one quarter away from > bankruptcy that they included what they had to know were faulty CPU cards I'm annoyed by the recent death of my 2400 too, but I doubt they knowingly sold bad hardware. It did take a year and a half for the thing to die, after all, so it's more a question of long-term tolerance - and that's not all that easy to measure in advance, even with extensive testing. If they do keep dying in droves we can always look at the possibility of a class action. It may be a good idea to note that my machine (as well as many others) didn't have a bad CPU daughtercard, but a bad logic board (which is more or less everything but the CPU). I suspected this but sent all three boards to DT&T anyway (the other one is power+I/O and has virtually no logic on it), and they confirmed that the logic board was the only dead one (which sucks, because I could have replaced the CPU card with a G3 :). It appears there's more than one failure mode being reported here; the majority I've read about were the logic board (as one would expect when 99% of the solid-state parts are there), but some say it was the CPU. Unfortunately some of either group may be people who aren't really aware which board was replaced, or even that there are two boards with logic on them - it's possible that even the above quoted "CPU cards" doesn't specifically mean the CPU daughterboard, for instance. CPUs don't fail much in the real world unless they're seriously overclocked, and the one in the stock 2400 doesn't run all that hot. It's the same part you'd find in any other 603e Mac of around 180-200MHz, after all. btw, my dead 2400 was built in the 31st week of 1997. Kim's suggestion of tracking the build dates of the ones that die is a good one; anyone want to volunteer to keep track? :) ---------- 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> Dr. Bott LLC | Get a LapBottom with new �GRIPPIER� gripper pads! | http://www.drbott.com/prod/lapbot.html $23.00 Midwest Mac Parts <http://www.midwestmac.com> | After-market parts for Macs. Fix your ticking dock for $59 w/ trade-in of PS. 888-356-1104 PowerBook Guy is | Click here! Everything PowerBook! | http://www.powerbookguy.com
