Hi Some iMac G3s shipped with DVD drives, along with G4 Cubes - both of which are capable of running OS9.
It is very easy to swap out an optical drive in an iMac G3. Keep in mind, they only have USB 1.1 so transfer would be slow and that these machines cannot boot from USB. You would either need a firewire DVD drive or a firewire hard drive with the Tiger image restored to it. I use my iPod with Tiger restored to it as it is so much quicker than a DVD drive and is superb. The iMac G3 is more than capable of running Tiger, but I would recommend cramming it with RAM to compensate for the slower processor speeds. I had a G3 iMac 500Mhz with 768MB of RAM a few months ago and it zipped along nicely running Tiger. You can get Tiger on CD but it is very rare. It was a mail-in option from Apple and not retail. Simon --- Hi there, New to group. I've recently acquired a Flower Power G3 iMac, but it's got a CD thingy rather than a DVD thingy. I'm going to do various things to upgrade it. The fact that it is fanless & has a CRT makes it ideal for light media duties in, say, a bedroom. I really do prefer to watch video on a CRT. Historically, most video was shot for CRT output. Does anyone have recent experience of swapping the cd thingy for a modern slot loading DVD drive? Can it be done? And will OS9 recognise a modern device as a DVD-ROM? I want to upgrade to Tiger at some point - doesn't it generally come on a DVD? Or can I go the USB route for a DVD drive? I've got other devices that don't have an optical drive and an external USB DVD drive would be useful but I can live without - internal DVD drive in the iMac a much preferred solution. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
