The 1994 PowerBook 540c Has a Fatal Flaw, and We're Going to Fix It

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Today we're fixing up a PowerBook 540c, a beautiful laptop from 1994 that brought many firsts to both Apple and the entire computer industry, but with a fatal flaw - the most comically under-engineered hinge in the history of Mac laptops.

Thanks @ThisDoesNotCompute for letting me include some footage from your similar PowerBook 145B fix!

Thingiverse links:

🍎 PowerBook 100 hinge by Gregorhouse: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:439...

🍎 My remixed PowerBook 500 series hinge fix: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:485...

🍎 My front bezel clip replacements: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:484...

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