On Wed, June 8, 2005 9:01, Brian said: > Well, it has arrived, and as I suspected, it only has a CD ROM drive, > so that will most likely be the first thing I need to aquire- a DVD > drive, unless someone has an ingenius way for me to load Tiger on it. > I'm amazed at how quiet this guy runs, just a soft, low whirr
Mine is very quiet as well. It is nice, isn't it? The scanner I'm borrowing from my mum for a family project is much louder than the computer itself. As for how to install Tiger w/o a DVD reader in the machine, someone mentioned that you might be able to set another Mac into firewire target mode (makes the machine act like an external firwire drive), but that, of course, requires you have another Mac that supports it. Personally, I'd go with a Liteon Combo 52W/32Rw/52R/16x. My B&W works with it fine, boots from a CD/DVD fine with it, I just had to use patchburn to get the Apple supplied software to see it as a CD burner and not just a reader. Mine cost less than 40 U.S. dollars. > I looked inside it last night, and am a bit perplaxed by the hard > drive setup- the hard drive is lying on the bottom of the case, not > bolted down, but I see how it is supposed to be screwed in, just not > not how to do it. Take a look here, this may answer all your questions: http://www.xlr8yourmac.com/IDE/add_2nd_drive/index.html As for your other question about wireless, the answer is it depends. :-) The PCI slots in the machine are standard PCI slots, but driver support varies. The Apple 802.11G cards use a Broadcom chipset, so any card that uses said chipset will be seen and utilized by the built-in Airport software (I've got a Buffalo WLI2-PCI-G54 in mine that works perfectly). Other cards that use other chipsets should work, /if/ the company that makes the card or chipset provides OS X drivers. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[email protected]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> iPod Accessories for Less at 1-800-iPOD.COM Fast Delivery, Low Price, Good Deal www.1800ipod.com
