On Jun 5, 2005, at 8:41 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is no such thing as a 'Mac' HDD, though. Since the mid-90's any
IDE PC drive would fit in most Macs.
Not entirely true.
There are "Apple branded" hard drives, which are othewise stock hard
drives, but are made on an OEM basis for Apple. (This has
implications on
warranty coverage, which I will not go into here)
In some cases, not all that rare for PB drives, the performance of the
drive has intentionally been lowered, through a custom firmware ROM
spec'd by Apple, on account of the significant power savings
achievable
by such customization.
I'd really like to see some documentation of that.
--
Bruce Johnson
"no matter where you go, there you are", B. Banzai
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