My machine that I would like to get one day would be the Mac Pro, the tower. On Aug 21, 2009, at 4:57 PM, Scott Chesworth wrote:
> > No need to be so warey Daniel. If you can find your way around inside > a pc, you'd be fine taking a poke about in a mac should your curiosity > ever get the better of you. The first time I opened up one of those > big old beast G4's I was pleasantly surprised, it's like the tidiest > of pc interior design just got tidier... if that makes any sense at > all. Everything was quite easy to fathom out, and the design was > overall much more rugged and well thought out than any pc I've ever > seen, certainly more than any pc I've built lol. > > Anyway, just a quick bit of reassurance, should you ever need to > upgrade anything. > > Scott > > On 8/21/09, Daniel Crone <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I have opened up a p c, but I would think twice before opening any >> mac. >> On Aug 21, 2009, at 1:41 PM, ben mustill-rose wrote: >> >>> >>> Drive replacement on the emac is dooable but apple don't want you to >>> do it. Opening it up is the easy part, but theres quite a lot of >>> stuff >>> inside it which is in the way of the drive. Your probably not >>> going to >>> break anything by having a look inside it so theres no harm in >>> giving >>> it a go. >>> >>> On 21/08/2009, Daniel Crone <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Wow! Did not know you could replace a drive in an emac. >>>> Is it hard to open one up? >>>> On Aug 21, 2009, at 12:55 PM, ben mustill-rose wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hey and thanks for the reply. >>>>> Both machines are tiger machines - I use the emac for audio and >>>>> not >>>>> much else so I figgured that i'd opt for a faster os with less >>>>> features since I wouldn't be using many of the features in >>>>> leopard - >>>>> its a g4 1.42. >>>>> The harddrive is a 80gb soon to be replaced with a nice and fast >>>>> 250 >>>>> 7200rpm. >>>>> >>>>> On 21/08/2009, Daniel Crone <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> I doubt you could boot using a Tiger machine. Leopard was >>>>>> written >>>>>> for >>>>>> the Intel chip set. >>>>>> Also, how large is the hard drive of the emac? >>>>>> On Aug 21, 2009, at 9:13 AM, ben mustill-rose wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Hey all. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I have a ibook with no harddrive in it. Before I delv into its >>>>>>> internals I want to make sure that all the existing parts have >>>>>>> no >>>>>>> strange faults that would render the system unusable when it >>>>>>> has a >>>>>>> harddrive in it. I'd like to be able to connect the ibook to my >>>>>>> emac >>>>>>> and use the tiger install on the emac to boot the ibook but i'm >>>>>>> getting conflicting messages about if this can be done or not. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'd be interested in hearing from anyone that has done this >>>>>>> before - >>>>>>> what exactly did you do? did osx find sound drivers? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Fyi, I did try connecting a drive via usb and installing tiger >>>>>>> on it >>>>>>> but it appears that osx can only boot from firewire volumes. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Thanks for reading, BEN. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Kind regards, BEN. >>>>> >>>>> email: [email protected] >>>>> msn: [email protected] >>>>> web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction) >>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Kind regards, BEN. >>> >>> email: [email protected] >>> msn: [email protected] >>> web: http://www.bmr.me.uk (under construction) >>> >>>> >> >> >>> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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/macvisionaries?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
