PowerBook 2400c -- The Japanese Mac Made by IBM

Despite the strange times Apple went through in the mid-Nineties, the company managed to produce a surprisingly competent lineup of Mac laptops. Except it didn't actually make of them.

Sources:
Duo 2300c images: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...
https://flic.kr/p/cMPuuW
96MB RAM card vs 64MB: https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/...
Upgraded 2400 with G3 card: https://68kmla.org/forums/index.php?/...
"PowerBook 2400: A True Tokyo Rose", Wired, 2002. https://www.wired.com/2002/03/powerbo...
PowerBook 2400 owners at 1999 Macworld Tokyo: https://web.archive.org/web/199910121...
Yu-Plan keyboard modded 2400: https://kevinmacwhinnie.com/uploads/2...
Japanese customized 2400s: https://web.archive.org/web/200104170...
Silver PB2400: https://web.archive.org/web/200104190...
Red PB2400: https://web.archive.org/web/200104190...
Translucent custom PB2400s: https://web.archive.org/web/200104190...
https://web.archive.org/web/200106060...
PowerBook 2400c Perfect Guide photos: http://yahoo.aleado.com/lot?auctionID...
Apple Pippin image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...

Computerworld, July 14, 1997.

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