can't boot from ordinary DVD drives. Click to expand... Really? I've booted my iMac (tray loader) off a couple of DVD drives...if a lowly iMac 333 that was never intended for u…

Running 3 hard drives in my G3 450mhz Rev. 2 box (dual 120gb ATA drives and the original 9GB SCSI), along with a CD burner and internal Zip drive. I'd have maxed RAM too, if more …

Hey All - I have a 12" PB G4 867 MHz that just stopped working one day. According to my cousin who was borrowing it long-term at the time, on Sunday everything was fine, and then …

I bought a second-hand 5300ce, very well taken care for, in 2003. Never had a problem (touching wood). The battery still lasts 10 minutes. The display is actually good, considering…

Of my four 5300s, only one didn't experience hinge or power connector failure. Two were warranty repaired, one is still broken. (I got it after the warranty extension had expired…

... and they're CHEAP! Wegener Media has barebones B&W 300s for $9.99 + shipping. (No affiliation) Locally they go for free / cheap on craigslist all the time.

This may be the dumbest question ever, but you can't hook a 2.5" laptop drive onto a 3.5" IDE connection, correct? Click to expand... You can - there are adaptors available tha…

This may be the dumbest question ever, but you can't hook a 2.5" laptop drive onto a 3.5" IDE connection, correct? Click to expand... You can - there are adaptors available tha…

Can you hear the hard drive in your iBook running? Wait, thats a stupid question... Click to expand... Yup

Yes! A 450MHz b&w G3 with 256MB RAM, 100GB total HD storage, ADB keyboard and mouse, and OS 10.4.9 is still the main Mac in use at my parents' house! I would love to…

All Great info thanks.

Strangely the one used previously worked at one time as well. Click to expand... Entropy always increases.

I would love to own one solely because I want to use my ADB keyboards. That does work in OS X right?

^^or by using an external firewire or USB2 + pci card I have to say I love the B&W, I got one on ebay only a couple of years back simply cos I remember when they were rele…

Yes. ATA controllers made before LBA48 was introduced (around 2002) cannot address more than 128 GB of disk space. You can work around this by using a card.

These Macs accept 1GB of RAM and HDDs up to 128GB. Click to expand... Is this really true? Obviously 128GB was huge 10 years ago, but I still don't see any reason for that sort…

I thought about to post the same topic yesterday. These Macs accept 1GB of RAM and HDDs up to 128GB. ZIF CPU upgrades up to 1100 MHZ are available. The 300mhz model is a bit slo…

I tried another ethernet cable and it now works. Strangely the one used previously worked at one time as well.

I love my 5300 and I would be very interested if the price were say $50. Otherwise, mine works fine. I'd mainly be picking it up for extra parts, and everything else it shipped wit…

I have always liked the B&W G3 Machines. I think they had more personality in terms of case coloring than the later Yikes! and Sawtooth machines. For me I have installed a …

I have 2 B&Ws in use, one with a G4-450. Both are very nice machines. I remember looking at them back in early 2001 when I decided to buy a 8500 powermac and beef it up wit…

Well it lacks the fundamental aspect of the hinge down motherboard, which was amazing.

"wow, this is the future of the Mac" Click to expand... And the Pro still has the same basic case design, wow.

Well, Cory, I've had Windows Server 2008 (basically a beefed up Server version of Vista) on a PIII Celeron 600 with 384MB of RAM! Its...not pleasant, but not as bad as you'd ex…

Can you hear the hard drive in your iBook running? Wait, thats a stupid question...