I want a freaking DVD drive on my iBook! Yeah yeah I'm gonna here that BS about "you should've gotten a PB G3". I wanted one, but this was a b-day present (my Mom said she'd by me a $2000 and under laptop). So I got an iBook with 160 MB of RAM. Now my question is: Does anyone have the faintest clue on how to get a DVD to work in an iBook? I've seen several topics like this on the iBook forum but the usual hardware hackers don't seem to visit that forum... Any ideas?

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[bizzare]

not happening dude

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-Bizzare

Specs: PowerBook (Firewire), 500 mHz, 256 MB RAM, 18 GB HD, AirPort, OS 9.0.4

Bizzare is, unfortunately, correct, it's not going to happen, there isn't the onboard hardware or wiring to make a dvd-rom drive worth it on the iBook. It might be possible with the proper drivers to get it to read the dvd-rom discs, but not play the movies. SOL dude.

[Ca$h68]

I disagree. Someone said that with 400mhz G3s, thats fast enought to do software decoding, so theoretically, if you O/Cd your processor and got away with it, and managed to stick a DVD drive into your iBook, it might work. I'm thinking of trying it on my 1st gen iMac.

Ca$h

theoretically, perhaps, though i'm not sure if it would work or not. Doesn't the Apple dvd-decoder use portions of the rage 128 chip? i dunno, i don't know much about dvd-decoding (yet).

Curious, how about replacing the CD-ROM extensions and files from the iBook w/the DVD-ROM extensions and files from the PowerBook, G4, or iMac? Wouldn't that theoretically work? Or do iBooks simply have a CD-ROM and nothing else?

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