Need an opinion

[techknight]

I need some input on this:

I have a 270c with a killed logic board. its nearly flawless condition, and the LCD is nice and bright. I may have another 270c board in a cracked-screen unit, but I am not sure.

However....

I have a true 2300c but its in sad condition. its missing the side rubbers, the lid latch, and the trackpad cable is also torn and useless. The LCD does work and its slightly larger than a regular 270c screen, but the pieces are missing. All this was done to it by a previous owner who removed the HDD in a rather bad way..... The IDE cable is still there though ;-)

I removed the rear lid to address the lid latch that was broken, but I misplaced the entire latch mechanism, and the rear lid! But the rear lid from the cracked-screen 270c fits albeit a little differently.

What should I do, Look for another 270c mainboard? or finally finish off the 2300c and upgrade the 270c?

Any thoughts?

 

[techknight]

Well I decided to install the 2300c mobo, I seen it had been drilled through on the bottom to remove the screws. So, yea its junk. Motherboard was alright though.

Only to discover, the original HDD in the 270c did start up on the 2300c, But i think its got a virus. I actually made a video of it and its uploading to youtube now.

 

[techknight]

 

[uniserver]

sorry you do not have access privileges

i do like the screen on that… the colors seem to pop out .. and looks clear… i love a quality LCD screen!

 

[techknight]

Yea, the technology is different as well. Those types of LCD screens, you can actually see the electrodes in the display. Very expensive technology, which is why they did away with it I suppose.

Believe its still an Active Matrix LCD like today, but its not manufactured the same at all... probably using different crystal chemicals. Hard to say.

My guess it was expensive to produce so they did away with it. And they do eat alot of light.

BTW, I think its a modified finder, or an infected finder. I did notice finder is actually "hidden" in the system folder, And the little thingy by the apple menu dont pop up until finder begins to load. I am thinking about imaging the drive, or at least copying finder and uploading it, Maybe someone can figure out what it is?

 

[techknight]

I ran into another program, called waterloo MacJANET.

I cant really find any information on it, other than some type of file sharing service.