Marc asks;
Does anyone know where I can buy an new or second hand CD drive for the
333 MHz iMac? Lately someone posted some links for spare parts, and I
noticed that one company sold those CD drives, although they were out of
stock, but I can't find them anymore...
Besides plain CD drives are there also CDRW drives out there which can
be installed in tray-loading iMacs?
If they are sold, but only as slot-loading, would it be possible to
install it in a tray-loading, perhaps with a little engineering?
sure, have fun, a standard CDRW drive will not work in this iMac, you will
need to use an Apple part. It is a cd/dv drive, (basicaly of no vlaue, a
marketing gimmick) yeah dvd looks great on a 12" screen LOL) You will also
need Mac driver to support this device which most manufactures do not
support. (90% of cases I have seen the drive is bad, but you may want to
try swapping the converter board first.) Though seldon, it is cheaper to
try the $20 part over the $200 part first) They use a laptop style with an
IDE converter stapled on to it. Yeah, superior Apple engineering & design,
eh ? Old shit recycled in a pretty box... Try to get a used one, if not
plan to spend about $200, same repair on a PC would be under 100. I have
repalced two this week, they are garbage.
E
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