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Using a CF Card as an SSD in a PowerBook 1400c (2020x21)

Air date: Jun 07, 2020

Today we'll be swapping out the hard drive of a PowerBook 1400c with an 8gb CF card with a super-inexpensive IDE adapter that we'll use as an SSD. Although it has a beautiful active-matrix screen, my 1400c is the very slow and cache-less 117mhz version made even slower by a clunky spinning hard drive and just 32mb of RAM. Does it really make a difference? Let's find out!