Hmmm....I'm watching a Fireball XL5 DVD on a 400 Mhz Tangerine Slot loader G3 with OS 9.2.2, 128 MB RAM and Apple DVD Player 2.7 right now, while emailing this message from a Flower Power G3. It ain't choppy in the least, and I can even see the puppet strings!
--- On Mon, 4/13/09, Simon Royal <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Simon Royal <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: DVD on G3 iMac > To: [email protected] > Date: Monday, April 13, 2009, 5:33 PM > 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
