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MattB
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on: October 03, 2008, 01:06

Anyone know where I can find one of these? I've wanted one ever since I first saw one...the last of the Powerbooks that aren't supposed to look like modern art.
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Reply #1 on: October 08, 2008, 09:11

I've got one. They are very cool and rumored to be faster than the cache-free 233Mhz Wallstreet1. Its heavy and almost 3" thick thanks to the lid speakers, but it is quite good looking in my opinion. There is currently one on ebay.
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Reply #2 on: October 09, 2008, 21:34

I have a Powerbook 3400c 200mhz, the direct predecessor. I can attest to their heaviness and thickness. But the sound system is great!! Makes the boot chime sound like a freight train!! Just Wish mine had a working ADB bus. It got fried somehow, so it's essentially useless. I wanna get another one, or a kanga.

That and a Powerbook 550c are on my wish list. My 540c is an awesome machine, just wish the batteries were not dead.
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Reply #3 on: October 10, 2008, 23:48

Did you do all the battery revival tricks?  I managed to get a couple of 540c batteries going that arrived dead with my 540c.

I have a PowerBook 3400c as well and I don't know if the Kanga is that much better, especially since it won't run 7.6.1 like my 3400c.
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Reply #4 on: October 11, 2008, 09:03

The Kanga is noticeably faster, but since it won't run 7, I'm sure its off the list of many people here. I like OS 8 and 9, but not nearly as much as 7. The 3400/Kanga models feel like tanks though. I also noticed that on the 3400c (and I'm sure any PowerBook with a touchpad) if you enable touchpad doubletap/drag, and you tap twice on the empty white space of the menu bar, then move the mouse to the drop down menus, they stay open like in OS 8+.  You can even move the mouse down to Recent Documents and such, without having to hold down the clicker.
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Reply #5 on: October 11, 2008, 17:55

StickyClick will give System 7 menus Mac OS 8-like *stay down* behavior with only one click on all computers.

http://main.system7today.com/software/stickyclick.html
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