Go to <http://allmac.com/> and type 2400 battery into their search engine.
They have the pram battery for $39.
How do I install a 6gig drive from a new PB in my 2400? My presious books
were the 100 and 5300. I had them both apart a number of times, but have been
reluctant to open the 2400 because of stories about how user unfriendly the
innards are. Are disassembly instructions available somewhere? Whatcha think?
JU
>(Ralph, Something I hope you will put in your news section. This is
>a real problem for those of us who count on having our clock and
>timezone saved correctly. In other news, MCE says they will be
>getting more of the 320MHz Interware upgrades, for $799!)
>After trying all the obvious places (MCE, DT&T, ...) I finally called
>Apple about a PRAM battery after my local Apple Specialist said they
>couldn't get 'em and that Apple wants $35 for the battery and $120
>for installation. I tried for over an hour on the phone to persuade
>the Apple customer "service" person what an absurd policy this was
>(would you send your car in to the factory for a new battery?) but
>had absolutely no luck.
>
>It was a theatre of the absurd, dealing with this chirpy salesdrone
>who had not a clue about how things like computer logic boards work,
>and tried (among other things) to send me to Radio Shack for a
>battery that looks the same. Bluish-green, that's the kind o
>battery I need, yes indeed. She also looked up the "information" on
>Apple's Web site and told me it was a 29Watt-hour LiIon battery.
>Yeah, right.
>She said the reason for this policy was that the PB 2400 was
>"complicated" and that they didn't trust authorized service providers
>to be able to take it apart and put it back together. Of course I
>was just boggled by all of this, especially since so many of us
>(including me) have taken our machines apart several times and the
>hardest part is keeping track of the screws! (which is really not as
>hard as it seems, actually.)
>
>So, assuming that when I pull the battery next week, it doesn't have
>any useful information on the outside, I'm looking for a dead PRAM
>battery, to take apart in the hope of being able to build them.
>Alternately, if you're in Japan and can ship some back, that would
>work, too, if anyone in Japan knows what kind of batteries they are!
>A lot of us are going to be needing replacement PRAM batteries
>
>eventually, and they seem to be simply unavailable in the States.
>
>~ Kiran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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