Noooo! Not a picture frame!!! 8-o

These elegant machines deserve to live out their years in dignity.

The optical drives are just standard IDE/ATAPI models - I've swapped them for generics with no problems (you need the shorter form factor). If you disassemble, you may even find that the drive has an eject button on it, but Apple have just omitted to provide the appropriate pinhole. Even Jony Ive was not perfect.

Try swapping drives before you give up on the machine, please :-*

Rick