> The trouble is this: the tear-apart/rebuild on an iBook Clamshell is so > arduous, so hideous, that asking someone to experiment with drives would be > asking way too much. Someone who has done a few can do them in 15 minutes, even snow iBooks aren't too bad once you get the hang of them. > Especially when you consider you can't run one partially > dismantled like you can a new-world Minitower, a ThinkPad or even a PowerBook > Wallstreet. Why not ? I run them all the time with the top casing and the metal EMI shield removed. -- Best wishes Malcolm Cornelius - The Powerbook Fanatic http://www.pbfanatic.co.uk