Hello ben, The G5 PPC is also an interesting construct as well. I have an older Mac mini, it's a G4 and I had reason to take it apart and It was really interesting how everything was organized in that little space. Wonder what the new Intel Mac minis look like. However, I don't think I'll take my son's Intel Mac mini apart any time soon. I've always been fascinated with good engineering and that's one thing I can say for Apple's products, they sure are engineered to extremely high standards and I hope it stays that way. Dan On Aug 21, 2009, at 5:19 PM, ben mustill-rose wrote:
> > Plus, if all you want to do is a memory upgrade, all you have to do is > open up a little compartment then the process is just the same as it > would be on a pc. > Obviously the i/emacs innerds are going to feel a bit different to > those of a pc, but as has been said, if you can open a pc then you > should be fine; I had the pleasure of opening a powermac a few months > ago; great cable management & airflow. > > On 21/08/2009, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello, >> About a year ago, I had to have one of the fans replaced in my Imac. >> The technician let me examine the whole process from start to finish. >> He was more than willing to explain the iMac's guts to me. Rather >> well >> put together. But, then again, I'm not at all surprised. The >> engineering is fantastic. >> Dan >> On Aug 21, 2009, at 2:57 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) >>>>> >>>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>> >>> >>>> >> >> >>> >> > > > -- > 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. 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