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CD burner in an educ imac G5 ?
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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Hi all,
I have an education class imac G5 coming soon my way :-) . From what meager info I could get on this machine (1,6 GHz, 17" machine), I know it comes without a DVD-CD drive. Now, maybe one of you folks would know if it is possible to add a standard internal CD burner inside the machine. I guess the connections should be there or not ?
Essentially, the educ machine must be a pretty close match to the consumer machine : same case, same screen, same components but the processor and the video card...
Do you have some info on this ?
Big thanx,
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I'm not sure what an "education class" iMac is, but the 1.6 GHz iMac listed on my Apple Store education page ($1199) has a combo drive on it (DVD-ROM/CD-RW).
Is there an "education class" iMac with less than that?
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Last edited by DoraExplorer; Oct 3, 2004 at 06:00 PM.
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it definetly will have a cd burner, to my knowledge.
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the $1099 1.6Ghz iMac will not have any sort of optical drive.
i'm not sure you can install one yourself, but i would surmise that you could... i can't imagine apple using a different enclosure/motherboard. they probably just plug the CD slot with a removable plastic cover. however, the one with the combo drive also has 40GB more space for only $100 more. not sure if this purchase was your decision, but this would be cheaper than adding the combo drive yourself.
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there is always the not so elegant option of an external burner. a 76 dollar dvd-rw and a 25 dollar 5.25" case means that for about 100 dollars you can have a fast dvd-burner
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Where can you get a 5.25" case for $25?
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