You're the king of mods, and you're *paying* someone to overclock your FrankenMac? dude. you suck.

I dont have soldering irons tiny enough to tinker with surface mount resistors. Think I'm nuts?!?!?! Actually. Don't answer that. Ca$h

anybody who says 'they aren't even Mil Spec like Moto' is gotta be ok show us da pix ca$h where is da frankenimac

I want a freaking DVD drive on my iBook! Yeah yeah I'm gonna here that BS about "you should've gotten a PB G3". I wanted one, but this was a b-day present (my Mom said she'd by me …

not happening dude ------------------ -Bizzare Specs: PowerBook (Firewire), 500 mHz, 256 MB RAM, 18 GB HD, AirPort, OS 9.0.4

Bizzare is, unfortunately, correct, it's not going to happen, there isn't the onboard hardware or wiring to make a dvd-rom drive worth it on the iBook. It might be possible with th…

I disagree. Someone said that with 400mhz G3s, thats fast enought to do software decoding, so theoretically, if you O/Cd your processor and got away with it, and managed to stick …

theoretically, perhaps, though i'm not sure if it would work or not. Doesn't the Apple dvd-decoder use portions of the rage 128 chip? i dunno, i don't know much about dvd-decoding …

Curious, how about replacing the CD-ROM extensions and files from the iBook w/the DVD-ROM extensions and files from the PowerBook, G4, or iMac? Wouldn't that theoretically work? …

I'm doing some tinkering with the keyboard usb ports, and was wondering if there's a way to get them to 'forget' the current they're limited to? I'm basicaly trying to make a 'k…

From what I understand about USB, the computer activly searches for USB devices, and when it hits one, the USB device returns a little data which tells the computer what driver to …

Sounds like you'd have to hack the drivers. Yech.

This may or may not be the best thread for this question, so my early apologies. I've got an iMac revB, & im looking for more HD space. (4gb doesn't cut it). What's the most…

Popular topic, I haven't actually done it myself but this what I've heard: 40 Gig Drive: http://forums.macnn.com/cgi-bin/Forum5/HTML/000764.html there's a list somewhere of co…

gee... that description on installing the internal looks like a challenge. maybe one of these days.... how fast does your external run, disectamac? Is it good enough to run prog…

One important thing to remember is the sloooooow transfer speed of USB - only 1.5 MB/sec maximum, assuming you have no other constant signals through that port. In contrast, the i…

My external is a Lacie which I've had for quite some time now. I'm sure there are better ones than the one I have. At any rate, I store most of my MP3 and video on it. As far as…

I'd seriously just get an internal harddrive and switch them. They are LOADS cheaper (a 40 gig hard drive is only 300 bucks), a CRAPLOAD faster (someone said 33megs a second I th…

Ya, I'm leaning toward the internal option. I was searching through the CompUSA product inventory and found a nice Maxtor 40 gig 7200 rpm for $200!!! There's no way an external c…

Would a FireWire hard drive be good for an iMac DV SE? Would it actually transfer at 50 megabytes/sec?

yes, a fan-less iMac would have a serious problem with a 7200 rpm drive. those things run significantly hotter than the 5400 rpm ones however, as long as you buy a 5400 rpm ide/at…

As long as you're replacing your internal hard drive, you could consider buying an external USB case for your factory hard drive. That would also make it a lot easier to transfer y…

internal is good... The USB thing imght be a neat idea. I'd try that. Also... I have a 7200 RPM drive in my 1 gen iMac, adn nothing has gotten hotter (CD Rom is…

Has anyone seen any external enclosures with a firewire hookup? I want to expand my SE hard drive space, but the firewire drives out there are still too pricey.

ClubMac makes it's own external hard drives at an extremely low price. 20 Gig External Firewire search for others here: ClubMac Home Page --------------------------------------…