I recently picked up a nice iMac Flat Panel G4 700MHz. This came with the
CD-RW drive. Since I wanted to be able to use DVDs (and also install
Leopard), I replaced the CD-RW drive with a DVD-ROM drive from one of my
old PCs. It actually works very well, with a couple of very minor
exceptions:
I have a 20 G4 that I maxed the RAM out in, and installed a new DVD-RW into.
You can get the DVD-RW at Newegg for about $12.00 and the RAM you can max out
to 2GB with 1 GB RAM strips. You can get that from them too.
Now, I'm not sure if your 17 can go up to 2GB RAM or not. There's a free