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What parts of a mac are compatable with pc?

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HeXploiT

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Specifically i'm looking at an emac. I know the ram is pc133 sdram and the cdrom looks like it's ide. What about the hard drive? Anything else inside a mac that's compatable with pc?
 
Everything except the motherboard is PC compatible... they use the same components as anyone else... and before anyone else chimes in... by motherboard, that means processor, and chipset are not compatible.

 
And usually Video cards won't work in a PC. Tehy have a different BIOS. but can supposedly be flashed to the PC BIOS.
 
Even the videocard eh? I opened it up and didn't see one so i assumed it was built into the motherboard. Then again i couldn't see the hd either. It was probably somewhere between the nuclear reactor and the cyclotron. Weird looking rig that's for sure.
 
Originally posted by: mettleh3d
I still can't get used to the idea of a one-button mouse. My Mx510 has EIGHT!
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You can use any USB mouse on a Mac you know. Although I do think they should at least move to a multi button mouse with a scroll wheel.
 
All macs except the powermac have the graphics processor on the mobo. The eMac is really hard to modify. The hdd in it is ide. The hdd in my iMac is SATA, so the parts are compatible.
 
their is only need for 1 button cause of the functionality of the keyboard. Its much easier tot use work program like photoshop dreamweaver because i cant use both hands to work not right clik and scroll eveyr 2 seconds
 
Originally posted by: mettleh3d
I still can't get used to the idea of a one-button mouse. My Mx510 has EIGHT!
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Mine too! Exposé and Dashboard are so much more useful when I don't have to use the keyboard.
 
Originally posted by: mettleh3d
I still can't get used to the idea of a one-button mouse. My Mx510 has EIGHT!
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How many fingers do you have?

I'd end up hitting the wrong buttons all the time. 3 is enough. Hell, most OSes have been using 3 since what? 80's?
 
The buttons are really well placed. You won't be hitting anything you don't intend.
Two extra thumb buttons above the thumb grip.
One button each above and below the scroll wheel.
One button just below that. Fast app switch with the mouse...mmmmm....
 
Originally posted by: interchange
The buttons are really well placed. You won't be hitting anything you don't intend.
Two extra thumb buttons above the thumb grip.
One button each above and below the scroll wheel.
One button just below that. Fast app switch with the mouse...mmmmm....
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That's too much. I _would_ hit extra buttons. On mice with "back" buttons on them (WTF?), I hit that constantly. Must be the twitches...
 
From PC to Mac you can use Ram, CD-DVD(R-RW), USB mouse/Keyboard, Monitor (exept the 30" Apple screen, it needs a over priced Video card to work), and HardDrives.

The hard drives I'm not 100% on. Last time I checked (two years ago) you had to check to see if the harddrive would work on a Mac, most did at the time so if you grabed a HD from a big name company like maxtor it would most likely work. Now I'm sure all new HardDrives work on Macs.
 
Originally posted by: SketchMaster
From PC to Mac you can use Ram, CD-DVD(R-RW), USB mouse/Keyboard, Monitor (exept the 30" Apple screen, it needs a over priced Video card to work), and HardDrives.

The hard drives I'm not 100% on. Last time I checked (two years ago) you had to check to see if the harddrive would work on a Mac, most did at the time so if you grabed a HD from a big name company like maxtor it would most likely work. Now I'm sure all new HardDrives work on Macs.
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Newer Macs use SATA.
 
Originally posted by: SketchMaster
From PC to Mac you can use Ram, CD-DVD(R-RW), USB mouse/Keyboard, Monitor (exept the 30" Apple screen, it needs a over priced Video card to work), and HardDrives.

The hard drives I'm not 100% on. Last time I checked (two years ago) you had to check to see if the harddrive would work on a Mac, most did at the time so if you grabed a HD from a big name company like maxtor it would most likely work. Now I'm sure all new HardDrives work on Macs.
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It doesn't require an overpriced video card to run the 30'' Apple Display. The ATI Radeon 9250 Mac Edition Apple OEM is able to run the 30'' display. The 9250 isn't an overpriced card.

And not all CD-DVD(R-RW) drives work with Macs. A lot of them don't even support Mac's, such as many Sony drives, Memorex, some HP drives, etc. I had a Sony DVD burner which I got from a friend. I installed it in my G4, and I put a cd in. When the drive closed, an error popped up saying the drive isn't supported, blah blah blah.
 
Nice to know. I have only tried it with a Lite-on drive, so I sort of assumed that aslong as there was a driver for it that it would work.

I'm going to shut up and go back to my corner now.
 
Originally posted by: MDE
Originally posted by: SketchMaster
From PC to Mac you can use Ram, CD-DVD(R-RW), USB mouse/Keyboard, Monitor (exept the 30" Apple screen, it needs a over priced Video card to work), and HardDrives.

The hard drives I'm not 100% on. Last time I checked (two years ago) you had to check to see if the harddrive would work on a Mac, most did at the time so if you grabed a HD from a big name company like maxtor it would most likely work. Now I'm sure all new HardDrives work on Macs.
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Newer Macs use SATA.
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Only the iMac G5's and PowerMac G5's use SATA. The eMac uses IDE, the Mac Mini, iBook G4, and Powerbook G4 use the laptop version of IDE.
 
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