On Dec 2, 2010, at 12:51 AM, Tina K. wrote:
On 2010/12/01 19:48, Bruce so eloquently wrote:
You do not need to put your new hard drive in the eMac.
Put the new hard drive in an external case, and plug it into the
eMac.
Yes that will work, though I believe the throughput of the internal
bus is faster than an external firewire drive.
I have not worked on an eMac but I did own a late G3 iMac and I
believe both can be worked on without too much difficulty -
certainly easier than a clamshell iBook.
If I'm no mistaken, most of Apple's consumer level products are
(purposely) difficult to work on.
I had an graphite clamshell that still had the tiny 7GB HD and I
decided to upgrade. I purchased a 60GB 7,200 rpm drive at Fry's but
the hang-up was trying to find someone to install it.
I languished for nearly a year but then went back east for a vacation
and mentioned to an old Mac guru friend the dilemma that I was in. He
stated, "no problem," and took the machine overnight and we met for
breakfast the next day. The upgraded iBook really came alive with
the fast drive!
BTW, the HD on those clamshells is about the first component they
install at the factory and you can just guess what you hafta go
through to replace one...
JT
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