> From: Tom Bridgeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Wow. I just bought Jaguar and put it on my little iMac, with > the 6 gig drive. That sure don't leave much space left over > for anything else! 2 gigs just for the OS, a gig free. > Clearly Jag isn't intended for older machines. So should I > be looking for some kind of external drive? Not having > firewire, seems like that would be pretty slow. Hmm. Any > suggestions? I have never looked into external drives.
Without Firewire, you can forget an external drive. You should probably be looking at either retrofitting your iMac with a faster processor card and FW port courtest HARMONi from Sonnet (cheap!!), or you should consider replacing the INTERNAL drive with a vastly bigger one. If you're not comfortable disassembling your iMac yourself, any good Apple-authorised tech should be able to do it for you for about 2 hours labour cost (plus the cost of the drive of course). The good news is that the iMac uses a stock IDE hard drive which are cheap, large and plentiful. I'd suggest you get recommendations on QUIET drives. _Chas_ Come to ... The CHASbah! http://thechasbah.blogspot.com **Go see BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE. It may change your life.** -- The iMac List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | - Epson Stylus Color 580 Printers - new at $69 | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> iMac List info: <http://lowendmac.com/imac/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/imac-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
