iBook G3 Clamshell DVD Drive

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Hello, I recently got an iBook Clamshell G3 m6411 for free off of Craigslist. I have already upgraded the OS to Panther, and installed an AirPort card. I also have ordered a memory upgrade to 512mb, which a computer technician will be installing for me next week. I also would like an optical drive upgrade to DVD-ROM. However, I have looked online and cannot find it anywhere. I also need a blue CD faceplate for it, because that was the only part that was missing off of this iBook. If anyone has these parts, or know where they can find them, please let me know.

Thanks!
 
I know, but I've seen some online. However, they are way too expensive, or the store is out of stock. It's listed as compatible for my clamshell.
 
Hm. What would you need it for? If it's about the occasional software installation or burning a CD/DVD, then I'd go for an external USB drive instead. You won't be watching DVDs on that thing, would you? :)
 
Millipedeman said:
Hello, I recently got an iBook Clamshell G3 m6411 for free off of Craigslist. I have already upgraded the OS to Panther, and installed an AirPort card. I also have ordered a memory upgrade to 512mb, which a computer technician will be installing for me next week. I also would like an optical drive upgrade to DVD-ROM. However, I have looked online and cannot find it anywhere. I also need a blue CD faceplate for it, because that was the only part that was missing off of this iBook. If anyone has these parts, or know where they can find them, please let me know.

Thanks!
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Can you please have a look at the following info:

The Factory Configuration Label of your iBook is printed on a label located on the case just above where the Airport card fits. The keyboard must be lifted up before the label can be read. To remove your keyboard, follow the instructions in the Apple User Guide which came with your iBook. If you don't have your User Guide, a copy can be downloaded from Apple's website.

This is a good link for operating on an iBook Clamshell.

The label will look like this:



Please post your iBooks Config info here, thanks.
 
the m6411 was the 366/466 MHz model AFAIK. The "blue" in his post tells me it was the indigo model quite probably.
 
fryke said:
Hm. What would you need it for? If it's about the occasional software installation or burning a CD/DVD, then I'd go for an external USB drive instead. You won't be watching DVDs on that thing, would you? :)
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I'll probably go with that. I won't be watching DVDs on it, I have a PC laptop for that purpose. Getting an external one will probably be cheaper too.
 
If I remember correctly, the clamshell iBooks only had USB 1.1 ports -- not the higher-speed USB 2.0 ports that modern Macs have.

If this is the case, I can say from experience that an external CD/DVD writer would be painfully slow -- even in burning a regular 650MB CD-R. It would take a minimum of 15 minutes to burn a CD, possibly more depending on how much data you're writing. A DVD would take more than an hour, possibly two.

I would forget all about burning any media with that iBook. Some iBooks had FireWire ports, I believe, which would be MUCH faster than the pokey USB 1.1 ports.
 
ElDiabloConCaca said:
If I remember correctly, the clamshell iBooks only had USB 1.1 ports -- not the higher-speed USB 2.0 ports that modern Macs have.

If this is the case, I can say from experience that an external CD/DVD writer would be painfully slow -- even in burning a regular 650MB CD-R. It would take a minimum of 15 minutes to burn a CD, possibly more depending on how much data you're writing. A DVD would take more than an hour, possibly two.

I would forget all about burning any media with that iBook. Some iBooks had FireWire ports, I believe, which would be MUCH faster than the pokey USB 1.1 ports.
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I wasn't going to use it for CD burning anyway, just for installing iLife and Office for Mac 2004.
 
Those, too, would be slow on USB 1.1. I'd go for a FireWire DVD burner. An Indigo iBook has FireWire. (Even if you won't burn DVDs on your iBook, the drive could be useful for another computer some other time.) LaCie makes some. Others might.
 
Hi
the place to buy a dvd optical drive for the clamshell that shiped with the clamshell is a www.powerbookguy.com it said its not compatable for our modals but on anther forum they say it is they dun it with no problem
 
The 366 mhz model never had a DVDdrive in it; only the 466 model (Special Edition in Graphite or KeyLime) had one. So even if you find the right DVDdrive; I doubt it's gonna work on that 366 Model.
I've had a few of these Clamshells in the past and taken them apart a few times, but to my knowledge, you can't place a DVD in the 366 model. If I'm correct this model has Firewire, so you can try an external firewire DVD-drive on it.
 
i own a 3666mgz clamshell firewire i repaced the hard drive. the cd rom ejects the cds but does not read them can i fix it. also if you hold the t key you will boot from firewire how do i boot from usb.
 
With this Camshell; you cannot startup from the USB-port; only the FireWire-port. The CD that's been rejected on insert; does this happen with all CD's? Are you sure it's a CD; not a DVD? Is the drive well connected with the cable from the harddrive and motherboard?
 
the cd rom will eject and inject cd like it works fine its trayload the firmware said no active package in the properties
 
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