Yes, I messed up a couple of iPods myself. They were broken anyway. Unreliable, 12 month shelf life things anyway.
I am a computer engineer myself, so i delight in dismantling things, especially apple products, well, when their warranty has has run out at least Sent from my iPhone On 25 Sep 2010, at 20:07, Steven <[email protected]> wrote: > I love opening things that I know I can put back together easily (though I > think that's how I broke the floppy drive on my PowerBook 145b), but I use > this iMac as my main workhorse, and will probably do so for at least another > year, so I can't really risk anything going wrong. The most I have ever done > to a computer that I rely on daily is opening up the display housing on my > iBook G4 in order to put one of those transparencies to make the glowing > Apple logo look like the old rainbow logo (and that's just about the easiest > mod possible on an iBook G4). Besides, as far as I can tell the white plastic > iMacs were built just like iPods, and I mangled the case of my third > generation iPod pretty bad when I tried to replace the hard drive. Being the > technology nerd that I am, I have a 9" CRT television on my desk that relays > everything from my main TV, so I don't actually need the DVD drive for > playing DVDs (which is 90% of what I would use it for), so when I do need to > use the drive it isn't too much of a hassle to use the index card trick > (before I had my current TV setup, though, it would drive me crazy, so much > so that I bought a $20 DVD player from Target to play through my TV tuner in > order to avoid the constant eject problems). > > Steven > > -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and 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 leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist
