I appreciate what you guys are trying to do n all.. But why bother? After all the hassle of buying/fitting a DVD drive and messing about with software etc, You may aswell have boug…

C'mon iPaul, where's your adventurous spirit! Full speed ahead Men!

How much did this DVD drive you got in there cost CrazyMac? Also, was the IDE cable expensive? This would give a good idea of whether hacking a DVD iBook is worth it or not...

Great news for all of you who own a iMac DV (DVD). The DVD-ROM will plug right into the cd rom cable on the iBook. you will just have to remove the adapter board off the DVD-ROM f…

Whoo! Hoo! I like the news so far. To my many detractors a happy :-P I'm doing this as soon as I get my iBook. I will post pics of the operation. I have confidence I will succee…

You are all completely and utterly mad ! and I can't wait to see the results of your experiments.

I am watching all this with great admiration and extreem interest. My iBook is now trembling with fear as I consider some extensive home surgery. 400Mhz ...hmmmm nice! DVD ....oh…

Oh yeah.. i just thought of one other (hopefully minor) issue... will you be able to attach the blueberry/tangerine CD drive face plate (with eject button and emergency paper clip …

Apple publishes thorough documentation on assembly/disassembly of it's hardware. You must be a certified Apple Repair Technician to obtain them. They come in PDF format. If the DV…

If I am not mistake you should be able to play DVDs over 100baseT network from a dedicated server as the throughput of the DVD is not that great anyway. if I check my DVD players t…

The encryption of the DVD's probably requires the DVD to be local as you can't share the files over the network until they are decrypted i.e. it won't even show you the files to s…

Well, Apple went and upgraded the iBook. Still no DVD. I guess this means it's up to me :-) I am placing my order this week for the new speed bumped iBook. I already have an iMac…

Good luck, Marlond.....let us know how it turns out! (fingers crossed) Dammit PS - If it works, then who should I buy a DVDROM from?

When will this experiment take place? And if it works is there a way us commonfolk can get our hands on the edited DVD software? If not could someone post suggestions as to how to …

What your doing is great, keep it up! How do I overclock an ibook?

To overclock an iBook you need to change the jumper settings on the processor card (i think.) I haven't overclocked my machines yet, i hope to sometime though. However, be carefu…

I tried using a USB-SCSI convverter on my iBook and I got a DVD to mount. I tried using a hacked version of Apple's DVD Player 2.0f with no luck. Then I tried this beta DVD player…

Well, I have my iBook it arrived yesterday. A Tangerine 64MB-6GB-300mhz. I have already added the AirPort card. I plan to swap the internal CD-ROM drive for the one in my iMac DV.…

Maybe I can help on this topic. Let me clarify first though my expertise is on IBM clones, I've just recently came into the apple fray with my iBook SE. This project should be ha…

I just think this is all SOO cool. i dont hav an iBook myself, but this is a cool adventure. U all remind me of the guys in Japan that like but CD roms INTO Mac plus's and make G…

What happend Get DVD going? Please tell us... I am very intrested, you could make some money putting DVD drives into iBooks. Keep up the good work!

Yes, please tell... Just got an ibook for my daughter and she would just love to watch DVD movies on it!

Lowered and loud civics? Gimme a break. Those cars suck. They look all badass with their 17" chrome wheels and racing sticker sponsors, but 99.9% of them are posers, or riceboys.…

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This all seems very cool. *BUT* if you do swap the drives or get one of the OEM dirves disscused earlier you might run into this problem: Notice that the iBooks CD-ROM cover is c…