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Recently this boxed example of an XtremeMac U.F.O. came up for sale, and I had to jump on it. This was a really neat accessory I've always been a fan of. It was made specifically for the iMac G4, and it provides front-facing USB and FireWire ports, cable management, and a super cool blue...

This is great. So what would you approximate as the cost to convert one of these displays over to LED? Would there be much difference between the size versions (15", 17", 20", 22", 23")?

I'll be there tomorrow. Am I allowed to bring something to sell (an iBook) even if I'm not a "vendor" or have a table reserved etc.?

This is great, thanks for sharing. Didn't even think to check the Internet Archive. Yeah, this is surely just another low-volume rebadged accessory product sold by a small company with limited success, but it's great to have the website archive available to see. One thing that really stands...

Howdy folks, I recently posted a thread about this on 68kMLA but figured I'd cross-post here as well. I recently acquired this NOS "iCube Multimedia Super Woofer Speaker System." According to the box it was produced by a Silicon-Valley-based company named Ice Technology, copyright date is 1999...

Time for the first significant addition to this thread, as I recently (finally) acquired an iMac G3/233 Bondi Blue (1998) and gave it the SSD treatment as well. There wasn't too much to note apart from a single curious finding: this machine is the first and only case I've encountered where the...

Yeah, something similar happened to mine which finally provided me with a good reason to move forward with the replacement. Let us know how it goes with these, hopefully they will be a suitable replacement.

Indeed, looks like the units I used are no longer available. I agree that the drivers without the silver centers would not look stock and would therefore be unappealing to me. I see that the drivers at your third link appear to be only 24mm in diameter instead of the 34mm that is needed, but...

Depending on which size/model you have here (15", 17", 20"), links to the SSD solutions I have used in my own iMacs are at the bottom of each of those links, respectively. Note that there are significant differences in terms of jumper configurations between the models.

So I spent the morning using the beta app, inputting a few devices and generally seeing how things work. I agree with wottle that it is very nice from a design perspective, and it would seem to be a really useful tool for many collectors who want a nice, clean way to keep track of their...

Amazing! Looking forward to testing this out. It does say that I need an email link or an invite code before I can use it, so let us know what that is.

Along with leaking batteries and failing capacitors, hard disk drives are one of the common failure points these days in vintage computer systems of all shapes and sizes. My own vintage Mac collection is no exception, so to get ahead of the curve I've spent the last year slowly converting my...

Following up here to say that after one final re-attempt to install Panther using the drive configured to cable select mode, the iMac has now been working flawlessly. Boots up quickly every time, wakes from sleep with no issues, and is also super speedy (and much quieter) now with the SSD. Not...

I've tried both of those options using the existing controllers, if that's what you mean. There is no way to swap the IDE cables around in different ways, given the extremely limited space inside the machine. There's a very short cable for the hard drive that connects to one controller, and a...

So I am struggling mightily to get an SSD up and running in my 1.25 GHz 17" iMac G4. I had success with using one of the red Startech IDE-to-mSATA adapters in my 15", so I thought that the same thing might work here. But alas... The 17" model differs significantly in that it has two IDE...