On Jun 13, 2004, at 20:28, Charles Martin wrote:
From: Aaron Benedict <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I have been thinking about upgrading my daughter's Rev1 iMac in the way of ram and a new hard drive. Is it possible to replace the hard drive or will I be stuck with just 4gb?
You have two options here:
1. Take apart the machine and replace the drive with any size up to 128GB. I would specifically recommend a drive with a speed of 7200 and an 8MB cache.
2. Spend a little money and get a HARMONi upgrade from Sonnet. This will not only replace the processor with something a great deal faster (500 or 600 MHz), but will add a Firewire port. This would allow you to add external FW drives (IDE drives in FW cases) for almost limitless expansion. Really gives those machines a new lease on life!
_Chas_
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Charles (et alia),
Am I correct in understanding your Option 2 above? Are you saying that the Sonnet HARMONI upgrade will eliminate the "First 8 GB" requirement for installing OS X? I've been trying to get a definitive answer on this for some time now...
Dennis Moser
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