Well, my solid-state drive is just a bog-standard $20 CF card, so I would not expect to see such blinding results at this end. Still, some of the test results on random reads in particular could be anything from twice to about nine times faster than the conventional, spinning drive. Writes, on the other hand, were mostly marginally slower, and in one of the tests, over twice as slow.

So while it is not a curate's egg, it is not a fabulous triumph either.

It took me a long time to take the 2400c apart again after last time, and I expect it will be at least as long again before I attempt it once more. As the machine is "fast enough," it's going to run on a CF drive until it needs repair. 8 GB is drive enough for a PowerBook running Mac OS 8.6 and intended for producing text.