Hi I disagree.
I put together a couple of G3 iMacs for my niece and a friend 400Mhz ones with 512MB RAM, 20GB HD, both who wanted a DVD drive. I also changed the plastics on one as they wanted a pink one. I took out the CD-ROM drive and fitted them both with internal DVD-ROMs (from later broken G3 iMacs) and they worked fine. I installed Tiger and DVD player worked fine. --- Visit my Mac site at http://www.simonroyal.co.uk. Or Skype me on 'Simon-Royal'. (Apple PowerBook G4 867Mhz, 1GB RAM, 80GB HD, SuperDrive. Mac OSX 10.5, 10.4 & 9.2.2...) On Apr 13 2009, Po-en Tsai wrote: Don't do it :D I would go for a external drive. I have a iMac G3 Slot Load, and DVD playback is crappy. VCD's however work fine. I have a external DVD drive for software etc. Po-en On 4/14/09, John Hokanson Jr. <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'm thinking of pulling the elderly 24x CD-Drive in my slot load G3 > iMac (350Mhz, and replacing it with a slot load DVD from a 400Mhz DV > iMac (or similar machine). > > How did the iMacs handle DVD payback? Was there hardware > decompression, or was it handled entirely in software? I've always > wondered how elderly G3 iMac could manage to do DVD playback, and I'm > not sure I wanna do it if I'm missing decompression hardware. > > - John > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
