I am the terror that crawls in the night. And by "terror that crawls in the night," I actually mean "loser who prowls the local Craigslist and Kijiji listings for old Macs." (Kijij…

You should benchmark it just for fun.

GREAT STUFF! I especially like that Compact Trio. Very, very nice! I like most of Jonathan Ive's Design Aesthetic, I wonder what he'd come up with w/o the need to kow-tow to "The …

After owning each unit for the past few days I have swapped the RAM card and Hard drive in the 230 into the 280c. Still works great and I gained new experience in opening up a duo…

Holy hell. I wish I knew how to ingratiate myself with public schools doing cleanouts so well as some of the others here, yourself included. You got some pretty sweet swag, comra…

Well, I'd say either look for a normal LCIII motherboard or seek someone out with a broken LCIII board with a working CPU and get the chips swapped. It really shouldn't matter sinc…

Very nice haul there. The G4s were an awesome deal and the 1st generation iPod! I'd love to get my hands on the original as there are not to many around.

Damn! You really did get those G4s for a steal. I've never seen one go for under $90 in my life . They're one of my favourite Ive designs - the floating screen is just spectacu…

There was a time when I didn't think i'd ever come back into the community again. I checked in on the troops recently though and really felt as though there were certain conquests …

Nope, didn't work . . .

How terribly anticlimactic. Oh well.

It's not hard to find decent SATA drive to PATA bus adapters. Whether or not some are flakey, plenty are just fine. I'm using several - one is on a PowerMac G4 with a 1 TB drive, a…

I didn't buy it.

Yeah! It kills me when this happens.

As for the Daystar Diskrunner, I know next to nothing about it. Click to expand... Same here, but I do seem to recall someone else here extolling their virtues. I'll see if I …

The onboard PATA bus can do 133MHz/channel, so unless you really need more than 1.5TB of storage you should be set. You could even do set up a software RAID in Disk Utility for ex…

So, Dog Cow, how does this saga end? You can't just leave us hanging!

As for the adapters, the kind that let you put a PATA drive on a SATA computer are significantly more reliable than the other way 'round. Yes, there are ones to put SATA drives on…

In part maybe, but it likely has much more to do with the ROM code not recognizing the foreign floppy drive, or the pinouts not conforming to Apple's hardware specs.

Sil3512 can be. If their rom is stored on a flashable chip. I have a really cheap possibly shady one from a bargain bin in Japan with very few markings on it and it does not flash …

any info on which cards can be flashed?

Finding bootable SATA cards which just work isn't easy. Click to expand... You need a card that makes use of the 64bit PCI slot for best performance.In my G4 I use a flashed ch…

Ah, that's definitely a plausible explanation. I never even thought of that, but differing drive head properties would certainly explain it. That might also explain why when my fr…

I'd be careful going the SATA-to-IDE adapter route. It's uncommon, but there have been instances where the adapters are not 100% compatible with a given drive, resulting in unrecov…

its definately strange. thats the first thing i noticed when i opened it up. seen the 16mhz CPU, and was like, what the heck? Me hurrying up and sell it for one fluke? or think it…