Slot loading G3 iMacs have an optical drive configuration that is certainly thicker than any optical drive for any laptop I have ever seen. It's a unique and custom configuration, just as the first tiBooks had a custom config (only lots thinner). So what I have been driving at, is where to get a superdrive like that that is not $150 (at MCE)? I can guarantee that no stock config laptop drive will do the trick. If you tell me eBay, tell me the make and model number please, because every auction I have ever seen is for a standard laptop config that will NOT do the trick, as is, in a slot-loading iMac G3. The other question then is are these slot loading iMac G3 optical drives somehow mounted in a casing that will allow a standard laptop optical drive to be transferred in, and if so, HOW, because after just pulling one out it sure doesn't seem obvious as to how. > Date: Sun, Oct 19 2008 5:57 pm > From: SoloSalsa > > On Oct 19, 4:25 pm, Reavok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hmm, is it really the same? Remember, this is for an iMac G3. The drives >> in there are certainly not slim line, but in some kind of very thick >> housing. Can the slim line be placed in that housing? > > I do not know about the later G3s, but I have an original Bondi Rev A, > 233MHz. It has a 3.5" hard disk, and a slim tray CD drive. > Are you talking about an external one? The first G3 iMacs certainly > did have slim optical drives. >
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