Plus, if all you want to do is a memory upgrade, all you have to do is open up a little compartment then the process is just the same as it would be on a pc. Obviously the i/emacs innerds are going to feel a bit different to those of a pc, but as has been said, if you can open a pc then you should be fine; I had the pleasure of opening a powermac a few months ago; great cable management & airflow.
On 21/08/2009, Dan <key...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Hello, > About a year ago, I had to have one of the fans replaced in my Imac. > The technician let me examine the whole process from start to finish. > He was more than willing to explain the iMac's guts to me. Rather well > put together. But, then again, I'm not at all surprised. The > engineering is fantastic. > Dan > On Aug 21, 2009, at 2:57 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote: > >> >> 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) >>>> >>>>> >>> >>> >>>> >>> >> >> > > > > > > -- 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
