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Cube + slot-in SuperDrive?
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Join Date: May 2002
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has anyone the specs (measurements) of the new slot-in superdrives, build in the new powerbooks?
idea is, the pb are so small, I wonder if this piece of hardware wouldn�t fit in my lil�Cube...?!
burning dvd with a Cube - wouldn�t it be lovely?
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Chances are very good that it would fit. I've had my Cube apart several times and noticed the DVD drive is actually a notebook style(44pin IDE) and not a desktop style (40pin IDE). Apple attached a small PCB adapter board to the drive to split it into a normal desktop style 40pin IDE and 4pin power cable. The same discussion was made back when Apple started shipping Ti Powerbooks with combo drives (DVD/CDrw). However, those drives never became available 3rd party. Apple only offered them as a $300 upgrade to older Ti Powerbook owners.
One minor incompatibility - though it probably doesn't apply to most Mac users. I've been using round 3" mini CDr and CDrw discs ever since owning a slot load iMacDV SE. While Apple has supported them in slot load iMacs, Cubes, and Ti Powerbooks with DVD and CDrw drives... they are specifically NOT supported in PowerBooks with Combo drives and Superdrives. However, it would be worth giving up the mini-CDs to get an internal Superdrive for my Cube! If only we could buy them.....joe
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That�s GOOD news!
my concerns are, the superdrive is just a little bit too long�
and to get one, the magic word is (sometimes) "repair" - find an official apple dealer with repair service, sometime you�re lucky and they sell you one...- we have to wait - costs is another no-go argument ;-))
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Join Date: Dec 2000
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if you moded the cube case, you could fit a 5 1/4 drive in their (a lot cheeper than the PB drive) also if your looking for such a place to obtain the powerbook drive it most likely have to be an apple specialist (a ranking in apple's retailer/service centers)
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There seem to be only one sloat loading superdrive, and it is the powerbook one 
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Originally posted by proux:
There seem to be only one sloat loading superdrive, and it is the powerbook one
Umm, I didn't say a slot loading 5 1/4, you would have to mod the case to make it work.
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Macs are neat machines, I couldn't do that to a Cube 
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exactly my point:
i don't want to modify the case, i want to modify the inerts - a cube is a cube, not a box, case, brick or somethin'
i wait for the real specs and will talk to my prefered dealer�
btw: has anyone this nice piece of sortware dvd enabler? for using pioneer04 OUTSIDE (firewired) an apple
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