<quote who="Georg Keller"> > --- "R. A. Cantrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How about a DVD-ROM/CD-RW combo then?
Those will work fine. Check out the drive compatibility matrix at <www.xlr8yourmac.com> to make sure the drive you have in mind will work okay. 99% of the drives will work fine, but not all will boot the machine from a CD or work with DiscBurner/iTunes. > Speaking of ATA, will I get any > adverse effects (clicks and such) with IDE? Typically, no. There were some issues with this on the Sonnet Tempo ATA/66 card, but a patch was released that fixed it (basically slowed the IDE bus speed a few MHz) I never did have that problem with my card. > Video: my son made a sacrificial gift: a card is saying it is ATI > Nexus GX Mac or something, I think it will suffice for PM. Do I need > drivers for 9.1? That was a pretty good card in it's day. I don't see why it still shouldn't be satifactory now. Check out <www.ati.com> and see what drivers they have for it. The card should work without the drivers, but acceleration won't be activated without them. > I will may go adventurous on SM with video. As for how > many nanoseconds my RAM is, I don't really know. I bought it > about a year ago in anticipation of something like this coming my > way. it was cheap then, that's all remember. RAM still is fairly cheap (not quite as cheap as the new machines, but eh), OWC <www.macsales.com> (check them out, great resourse for the upgrade resistant person, plus they have XPF for loading OSX on these machines) has them for about $25 a 128MB stick. I still remember forking out $80 for a 64MB chip in 1998. -Rob -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
