New Cases, Faster Performance

[sturm375]

Great Case?

Originally posted by MikeH
...The current case has been around for about three and half years now, not including minor revisions, and although the current design is still leagues ahead of anything in the PC market, ...

It depends on whether or not you are a true geek, or just a wannabe geek. You see the G3 style case is very pretty, and yes easy to open, but take a simple task of adding a hard drive, and you see it is not very fuctional. Although I have not been in a G4 case, I assume they still line up the Hard Drives horizontally as opposed to the PC world that stacks them. By putting them horizontally, you now need a special IDE ribbon cable to connect two drives, no matter where you put them. Also try adding a CD drive, real fun. I really prefer to use Antec cases, even though they arn't as open as the G3 style, they adhear to more standards, and you don't have to spend $30 on an IDE ribbon cable.

 

[Mr. Anderson]

Re: Great Case?

Originally posted by sturm375
I really prefer to use Antec cases, even though they arn't as open as the G3 style, they adhear to more standards, and you don't have to spend $30 on an IDE ribbon cable.

Well, I guess I was lucky when I got my G4, since it seems I didn't have to spend and extra $30 for a special IDE ribbon cable.

Come on, there aren't that many people around here who actually make BYO macs. There really isn't much of a market for it.

 

[theranch]

Re: Great Case?

Originally posted by sturm375


It depends on whether or not you are a true geek, or just a wannabe geek. You see the G3 style case is very pretty, and yes easy to open, but take a simple task of adding a hard drive, and you see it is not very fuctional. Although I have not been in a G4 case, I assume they still line up the Hard Drives horizontally as opposed to the PC world that stacks them. By putting them horizontally, you now need a special IDE ribbon cable to connect two drives, no matter where you put them. Also try adding a CD drive, real fun. I really prefer to use Antec cases, even though they arn't as open as the G3 style, they adhear to more standards, and you don't have to spend $30 on an IDE ribbon cable.

Really? I didn't find it hard at all to add another drive to my G4.

 

[AlphaTech]

Re: Great Case?

Originally posted by sturm375
I really prefer to use Antec cases, even though they arn't as open as the G3 style, they adhear to more standards, and you don't have to spend $30 on an IDE ribbon cable.

Where are you getting a $30 ribbon from??? Man, they saw you coming . I have used standard ribbons that come with ATA drives inside of G3/G4 systems. You want to add one drive, stack it on top of the one from Apple, they even provide you with a second connection on that ribbon. Want more, well, you have to add an ATA card, same as with a pc if you want more then two drives. You DO NOT want to put a hard drive after an optical drive inside a peecheese. Once you put the ATA card into your Mac, you can use any ribbon you want (like the ones that come with the card or drive for FREE).

As my father used to say... more money then brains (and you must be broke) .

 

[Grokgod]

30 bucks for a ribbon?

uhh thats quite insane, I think you could find an Emachine on a street corner and grab out a ribbon out of it for nothing. Hell, next time email me and I will send you one for the cost of mailing it.

 

[big]

ide ribbon @ local mac joint-$6
ide ribbon salvation army (didn't know what it was)-$1
ummm, I'll sell you either for $25 that's a $5 discount! what a steal

oh, and on the subject of apple increasing mhz speed...didn't they just up the Imac 35%? trying to put that into the froth with other future upgrades (they don't always increase it by a specific amount)