Dear all,<br><br> I am a proud owner of iBook G3 700MHZ,
384MB memory and it has been working pretty well on MacOS X jaguar with
its 20G hard disk space. However all good things come to and end the
other day when some sector of the hard disk rendered itself unusable.
Therefore I need to change my hard disk and hopefully anyone out there
can help me with this.
<br><br>1. I am planning to upgrade my hard disk from the 20G IDE ATA 66 5400RPM to 80G IDE ATA 7200RPM, <br>- The increase in RPM, does it affect the performance of the iBook G3 700MHZ? <br>- Has anyone tried that before?
<br><br>2. If you have tried it, how was the performance of MacOS X
after the upgrade? Any more frequent occurance of 'Freeze', 'Hang' as
reported to be ? <br> - Before the 20G HD od my iBook kong out, the MacOS X jaguar running on it was superbly reliable and seldom hang.
<br><br>3. Unfortunately as the last victim of the slot-loading DVD/CD
combo, the DVD/CD reader of my iBook was spoilt by some careless
individual. <br> - Is it possible to install MacOS X on to the newly
upgraded iBook externally say, through another Mac by making my ibook
startup pressing 'R' key? (Thereby making it a external hard drive?)
<br><br><br>Thanks for your insight and helpfulness.<br><br>Eternally Gratefully yours<br><br>Eric 'Proud owner of iBook G3 700MHZ, 384MB' <br>