On 9/29/05, Johann Beda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 12:09 AM -0400 9/29/05, Eric Dunbar wrote:
> >With the exception of a handful of users (like yourself ;-), the
> >market for OS X 10.4 is dominated by machines with DVD drives (only
> >the early iMacs, some iBooks, a few eMacs and some of the B&W G3s lack
> >DVD playback).
>
> My wife has a bunch of machines in her lab, "Quicksilver" PowerMac
> G4s from 2002, that I think were stock configurations, that do not have DVD
> playback. I did not think that we ordered them BTO without DVD, but perhaps
> we did to save some money. Fortunately "target disc mode" allowed us to
> install Tiger without too much trouble.
I suspect they were BTO. It seems odd that 2002 pro machines would
come without a DVD reader.
Eric.
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