No need to be so warey Daniel. If you can find your way around inside a pc, you'd be fine taking a poke about in a mac should your curiosity ever get the better of you. The first time I opened up one of those big old beast G4's I was pleasantly surprised, it's like the tidiest of pc interior design just got tidier... if that makes any sense at all. Everything was quite easy to fathom out, and the design was overall much more rugged and well thought out than any pc I've ever seen, certainly more than any pc I've built lol.
Anyway, just a quick bit of reassurance, should you ever need to upgrade anything. Scott On 8/21/09, Daniel Crone <quirky.wiz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I have opened up a p c, but I would think twice before opening any mac. > On Aug 21, 2009, at 1:41 PM, ben mustill-rose wrote: > >> >> Drive replacement on the emac is dooable but apple don't want you to >> do it. Opening it up is the easy part, but theres quite a lot of stuff >> inside it which is in the way of the drive. Your probably not going to >> break anything by having a look inside it so theres no harm in giving >> it a go. >> >> On 21/08/2009, Daniel Crone <quirky.wiz...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Wow! Did not know you could replace a drive in an emac. >>> Is it hard to open one up? >>> On Aug 21, 2009, at 12:55 PM, ben mustill-rose wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Hey and thanks for the reply. >>>> Both machines are tiger machines - I use the emac for audio and not >>>> much else so I figgured that i'd opt for a faster os with less >>>> features since I wouldn't be using many of the features in leopard - >>>> its a g4 1.42. >>>> The harddrive is a 80gb soon to be replaced with a nice and fast 250 >>>> 7200rpm. >>>> >>>> On 21/08/2009, Daniel Crone <quirky.wiz...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I doubt you could boot using a Tiger machine. Leopard was written >>>>> for >>>>> the Intel chip set. >>>>> Also, how large is the hard drive of the emac? >>>>> On Aug 21, 2009, at 9:13 AM, ben mustill-rose wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> Hey all. >>>>>> >>>>>> I have a ibook with no harddrive in it. Before I delv into its >>>>>> internals I want to make sure that all the existing parts have no >>>>>> strange faults that would render the system unusable when it has a >>>>>> harddrive in it. I'd like to be able to connect the ibook to my >>>>>> emac >>>>>> and use the tiger install on the emac to boot the ibook but i'm >>>>>> getting conflicting messages about if this can be done or not. >>>>>> >>>>>> I'd be interested in hearing from anyone that has done this >>>>>> before - >>>>>> what exactly did you do? did osx find sound drivers? >>>>>> >>>>>> Fyi, I did try connecting a drive via usb and installing tiger >>>>>> on it >>>>>> but it appears that osx can only boot from firewire volumes. >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks for reading, BEN. >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Kind regards, BEN. >>>> >>>> email: bmustillr...@gmail.com >>>> msn: benmustillr...@hotmail.com >>>> web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction) >>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Kind regards, BEN. >> >> email: bmustillr...@gmail.com >> msn: benmustillr...@hotmail.com >> web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction) >> >> > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
