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Originally Posted by contoursvt  See here is the only problem with Apple products... they are very proprietary which means if the power supply in a tower ever let go or if a system board let go, you have no choice but to pay apple what ever they ask. Thats my main reason for not buying a mac brand new (meaning pay a lot of money).
When one of our Dell's in the office (PIII 500) finally let go, we decided we would still use the 40gigabyte HD that was in there, the chassis, the DVD ROM, Floppy drive..etc. Purchased a P4 board, RAM, Processor and Power supply and basically made the Dell new again. Didnt cost a lot of money either and were purchased through a local computer shop. System board was an MSI and it fit pretty much perfectly. |
Ironically, I've had this problem with Dell more than with Apple!
My brother got a Dell PC free from his job, but it had no power supply. It did NOT use any kind of standard connector, so he had to buy straight from Dell. Worse yet, the people who took his order at Dell didn't even know the products, so they ended up sending him the
wrong power supply. Pain in the rear, that was.
And Apple's HDs, optical drives, RAM etc. are all the same you see in PCs, and just as interchangeable.
But you're right, you can't just buy a new motherboard. At least, I don't think you can...Intel Macs do use custom motherboards, don't they? I assume they do so they can ensure OS X only runs on Apple hardware.