>Dear Listessas, Listas - > >How hard would it be to replace the DVD drive in a PB G4 500 with >the ones now standard (?) in the 'new' Ti 550 and 667 ? I have >replaced HD, RAM etc. in different PB's and I heard that there are >really only two (?) manufacturers for the 'new' Combo drives. >How much would a drive cost? Has anybody tried this? What would >the old drive sell for on, say, Ebay? Physically different, I'm afraid. No reverse engineering, although I'm sure someone will cut chunks out of their Ti one day simply to prove it is 'possible' ;-) (e.g., like slotting CDRW into SE/30).
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