Yes, its always been some what of a mistery to me how they can fit fairly good components into such a small case with out it overheating - baring in mind that the optical drive is going to extend a fair way back into the case; I think its pretty impressive.
On 22/08/2009, Dan <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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) >> >> > > > > > > -- 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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