your main problem will be that the upper bay is not ventilated enough to run a hard disk. It will overheat. how much is dependant on how much you use the disk. you could get a fa…

how about this? http://www.electricdogs.com/

Hey camiltoe, thanks for that link... [This message has been edited by zac4mac (edited 05-24-2000).]

Quote: Originally posted by camiltoe: how about this? http://www.electricdogs.com/ Has anyone actually used one of their Firewire harddrives? Their price seem far…

I was just wondering if, in theory, I can simply pull out my G3/300 from my beige G3, and replace it with a G4? Will it function properly, and will I be able to use Alti-Vec? Wil…

You would simply require a [expensive] G4 ZIF socket upgrade card for this to work, oh, and be sure you have the Royal VRM, not the bad one... the VRM is this square module under/r…

Anyone tried this yet? (CrazyMac? You out there?) What I really want to do is replace the iMac's HD with the HD in my iMac. And maybe later swap that for one of these huge but …

Oops. Let's hear it for proofreading... What I meant to say was that I want to replace the HD in my *iBook* with the one in my iMac.

I don't think you'll have much luck putting a hard drive from your iMac into your iBook. First of all, you'll need a notebook hard drive. The power consumption of a desktop hard d…

...And the new huge hard drives won't fit either. As far as I know, assuming it used the same interface as the iMac (which I don't believe it does), you'd need to find a way to ge…

caslis.com/mac/ibook/ibdrive.html Go to the above URL for instructions to replace the HD in your iBook. I did it, it's not really hard, but it's a lot of work and stress (�3 hours)…

What was that company again that will do it for you and even transfer your HD data to the new drive? After seeing the picts I don't think I want to do it myself.... but at the sam…

MCE Powerbook Products will do it. Their web site is at http://store.powerbook1.com/ . If you have them do it, let us know how things work out... I've been thinking about having…

Personally, "improvising" on your iBook the way mentioned in "wibur"'s post is kind of outlandish. Maybe he didn't know the drive sizes and all... No matter. You can also order iB…

I'm just about to put a 12gig 2.5" IDE (9.5mm) drive into my Rev 1 (3 gig) iBook. I'll post back later to let you all know how it went

Ok, that has to have been the most stressful thing I have ever done in my entire life (Including total component transplants on antique synthesisers, open clock multiplier surgery …

Congratulations... You're more brave than I, and probably a lot of people on this forum...

Thanks. The only problem is, I really don't want to have to do that again, but my brother's now commenting on how cool it would be to put a 12gig drive in his iBook (and guess who …

Yes indeed, I was clueless enough to think just maybe I could put a desktop drive in a laptop. Thanks for the replies.

Just for information sake, there ARE adapters to take IDE (and even SCSI) laptop hard drives to regular cable size, for mounting in desktops, etc. They sell them at Fry's Electron…

I found a website with a photo guide of replacing or installing a new ibook hard drive. http://www.caslis.com When there click on mac stuff. Then click on the iBook section. (Cas…

Holy **** . I'm DEFINETLY not trying that.

I am even too scared to replace the extremely cramped hard drive on my PowerBook G3 Lombard. The iBook wasn't meant to be tinkered with. Remember, it's a consumer model. And you c…

actually, mine's used for writing games (unfortunately, not Mac ones), as well as playing them, watching VCD movies, playing CDs and MP3s and doing DTP and minor Web design work. N…

i don't think this is the best place to ask this but anyways... does anyone know what software i can use to save my dvd-rom's firmware to disk and upload it again (after playing w…